The Drug Control Police (PCD) caught two men who are cousins and belong to a gang behind international drug trafficking. The organization used pineapple exports as a screen to send cocaine from Costa Rica to Europe. On Wednesday, the PCD raided two homes in Venecia de San Carlos in Alajuela, where they captured the leader […]
Archives for November 7, 2018
ANEP says there are dissidents in the government who want the strike to continue
Within the government there are important levels of dissidence (…) and they recommend maintaining this social-union unity at all costs.” These were the first words of the Secretary General of the Association of Public and Private Employees (ANEP), Albino Vargas, during the union rally in Plaza de La Democracia. Vargas said they also have information […]
Gang sent drugs from Costa Rica to Spain in coffee packages
A criminal organization recruited people to transport drugs to Europe through suitcases, but they were arrested in operations carried out by the Deputy Prosecutor’s Office against Drug Trafficking and Related Offenses. As a result of this operation, three people were arrested in operations that took place in Los Guido de Desamparados, La Trinidad de Moravia, […]
Court of Appeals determined strike in the PANI is legal
The Labor Court of Appeals of the First Judicial Circuit of San José determined the strike in the National Board of Children (PANI) is legal. The ruling issued on Monday indicates that the strike qualification proceedings were declared null and void. One of the reasons that weighed in the analysis of the appeal was that […]
Government takes RECOPE strike discussion to Second Chamber
After the Labor Court of Appeals of the Second Judicial Circuit of San José reversed a verdict and declared the strike at the Costa Rican Petroleum Refinery (RECOPE) as legal, the Executive Branch did not sit idly by and presented an appeal before the Second Chamber. In a first ruling the strike was declared illegal; […]
500 murders and counting
With just two months before the end of the year, the national authorities report 500 homicides during 2018. The most recent case occurred on Monday night in the sector Manuel de Jesús Jiménez, in the central canton of Cartago. There, the rescue authorities located two men who were shot and then burned. One of them […]