Everything indicates that the end of the year would bring a lower dollar exchange rate. Those are the projections launched by experts, who despite not wanting to predict a specific amount, point out that all the existing pressures in the markets aim to push the price of the dollar down. This was stated by the […]
Archives for October 17, 2019
Costa Rica separates from Brazil for the UN election
A few hours before the election of two new members for the Human Rights Council of the United Nations (UN), the government of Carlos Alvarado denied the strategy announced last week by the Foreign Ministry to get one of these positions. Although the Foreign Minister of the Republic, Manuel Ventura, said that the country would […]
Alvarado will discuss migration and trade with the president of Mexico
President Carlos Alvarado, will travel this Sunday to Mexico City for an official visit. This Wednesday the President announced that this Sunday he will go to the Aztec nation to meet with President Andrés Manuel López Obrador, known as AMLO, on October 21st. Alvarado said that the issues on the agenda between the two will […]
Government guarantees that it will meet all OECD requirements
On Wednesday, the government guaranteed that it will meet all the requirements to join the Organization for Economic Cooperation and Development (OECD). This was stated by the Minister of the Presidency, Víctor Morales Mora, after opposition legislators said that the government puts Costa Rica’s accession process to that important body at risk. One of the […]
Legislators endorse budget for ¢ 10.5 billion by 2020
Unanimously, the Committee on Tax Affairs of the Legislative Assembly endorsed the ordinary and extraordinary budget of the Republic for 2020. Nine legislators affirmatively ruled the spending plan for ¢ 10.5 billion presented by the Executive Power. The budget is 4.3% less than this year’s and represents the biggest cut in current government spending of […]
Prosecutor receives more than 2,000 complaints over environmental issues
The Environmental Prosecutor of the Public Prosecutor’s Office receives more than 2,000 annual complaints, many of which are from public institutions that deal with the issue. Therefore, in order for people to identify more and more with environmental causes, a campaign called “Do you protect the environment?” was launched , which starts this week and […]