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Archives for May 2018

March of the workers with a goal: no to the tax reform

May 1, 2018 by Staff News Writer

On Tuesday, the traditional march of the workers took place in downtown San José, with the premise of expressing the workers’ dissatisfaction with the tax reform. The block of national unions called for the traditional march that extends from the Church of La Merced to the Legislative Assembly, where the draft Law of Strengthening the […]

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Women will rule the Legislative Assembly during the first year

May 1, 2018 by Staff News Writer

For the third time in history, a woman will be President of the Legislative Assembly. Carolina Hidalgo, from Acción Ciudadana party, will have the honor of presiding over the first year of the new legislative period. Next to her, there will be four more women in charge of the Legislature for the period 2018-2019. Hidalgo […]

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According to Hidalgo, the fiscal issue must be resolved in six months

May 1, 2018 by Staff News Writer

The outgoing Legislative Assembly could not approve the fiscal project presented by the government of Luis Guillermo Solís and it will be up to these new legislators to decide on that issue. The president of the Congress elected on Tuesday morning, Carolina Hidalgo, said that first legislators must be given time to analyze the text […]

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National emergency due to violence against women

May 1, 2018 by Staff News Writer

Patricia Mora, the new Minister of the Status of Women, and Carlos Alvarado, president-elect, will declare a national emergency due to the wave of violence against women registered in the country. There is a commitment from Mr. Carlos Alvarado to decree a national emergency due to the wave of femicides, the wave of increasing sexist […]

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President vetoes reform to the Organic Law of the College of Physicians

May 1, 2018 by Staff News Writer

Luis Guillermo Solís vetoed the legislative decree to reform the Organic Law of the College of Physicians and Surgeons of Costa Rica, according to a note sent to the legislative president Gonzalo Ramírez. According to the Presidential House, the reason is that the substitute text approved by the legislators was not consulted in a timely […]

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Puntarenas Hospital treated 52 burned children

May 1, 2018 by Staff News Writer

Víctor Manuel Sanabria Martínez Hospital in Puntarenas has treated 52 children in the “Children with Burns Unit” of the Central Pacific region in just over a year. The number of timely treatments represents an important leap in the type of care for this emergency in the hospital, with highly successful results in healing, which begins […]

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