Marco Vicente Redondo, a member of the Citizen Action Party (PAC), attacked allegations of corruption by social-Christian and liberationist lawmakers, following the cases of three vice-ministers of the government, two of whom acknowledged an extra payment on their salary and a third who insists that she is in fact entitled to the payment. Redondo says […]
Archives for February 23, 2017
Work progress in Florencio del Castillo highway
After the complaint of the Municipality of Cartago and even a neighbors’ demonstration against the poor state of the Florencio del Castillo highway that communicates Cartago with San José, the works of improvement are making some progress. The intervention of the National Road Council (CONAVI) and the Ministry of Public Works and Transport (MOPT) began […]
CR Ambassador to China about to be fired
Costa Rica’s ambassador to China, Ricardo Javier León Pérez, will be working his last days as a diplomatic representative. The press found out that chancellor Manuel González is ready to remove him from the position after the sum of non-compliances during his management. León is on the list of the 8 ambassadors with the worst […]
Costa Rica among the top 25 countries monitored for piracy
Do you usually download videos, music or movies online? This practice has become very common for Internet users, which makes Costa Rica appear on the blacklist of countries that should be monitored for piracy. Special Report 301, published by the USTR, carries out an in-depth analysis of the violation of intellectual property rights around the […]
Low-income people deal with lower inflation
Possible increases in the dollar exchange rate and international oil prices could have an impact on the Costa Rican inflation in 2017, due to a rise in the price of imported products and fuels. The results for this year contrast with those of 2016, when inflation closed at 0.77%, a figure well below the target […]
What changes if the FATF follows Costa Rica more closely?
In recent days, the Minister of the Presidency, Sergio Alfaro, warned of the country’s risk of falling into the category of intensified monitoring by the Financial Action Task Force (FATF). The inclusion of Costa Rica in the list of “non-cooperative” countries would imply that the country failed to show that it made substantial changes in […]