Once again, the Costa Rican Red Cross was targeted by criminals when assisting in an emergency in San Antonio de Escazú. The events occurred in the early hours of Sunday. The Escazú committee received a call to address an alleged case of rape against a minor. However, upon arriving at the site they were attacked […]
Archives for August 7, 2017
80 extra-continental migrants entered the country
An important group of extra-continental migrants entered Costa Rica between Sunday and Monday through Paso Canoas. There were 43 migrants from Nepal, 21 from Eritrea, three from Sri Lanka, eight from Congo and five from Angola. The health status of each of these people is being checked. Costa Rica suffered a migratory crisis in late […]
Route 32 to be closed from Monday
If you must transit Route 32, remember that from this week until early September the National Laboratory of Materials and Structural Models of the University of Costa Rica (LanammeUCR) will make partial closures on route 32. This measure is because engineers from LanammeUCR will examine the pavement of the area. This is the closing schedule: […]
Nicolás Maduro might be losing support from the Armed Forces
The confusing assault on a military base in Venezuela sparked questions about the unity of the Armed Forces around President Nicolás Maduro, in the midst of a crisis that is becoming more and more explosive. In an incident in which both the government and the attackers claim victory, about twenty men stormed on Sunday morning […]
Government gives up on $500 million credit for ICE
The Government will give up on a controversial $500 million credit for the Costa Rican Electricity Institute (ICE) that was being discussed in the Legislative Assembly. Luis Paulino Mora, deputy minister of the Presidency for Legislative Affairs, confirmed that the executive branch will withdraw the bill from extraordinary sessions of the Congress. The decision was […]
Costa Rican “call center” scams 57 American senior citizens
Four Americans hired a clandestine call center in Costa Rica to trick 57 senior citizens through fraudulent lotteries for the amount of $ 1.4 million. The defendants accepted the charges against them and were sentenced to prison in mid-June by a federal court in Florida. The investigation by the Federal District Attorney’s Office of the […]