Once again, the judiciary obtained the first place as the best evaluated public institution in terms of transparency on its website. According to the Index of Transparency in the Costa Rican Public Sector (ITSP), the Judiciary obtained a perfect score (100 points), since its web system is friendly, fast-accessible, with open data and allows citizen […]
Archives for October 18, 2019
DiDi: Uber’s Chinese competition in Costa Rica
DiDi Chuxing, the powerful Chinese company responsible for managing private passenger transport through technology platforms, is planning to start operations in Costa Rica. This was revealed on Wednesday, October 16th, on Reuters news agency and published on different sites. The information is supported by an advertisement promoted by the company on the LinkedIn social network […]
Poverty remains in Costa Rica but extreme proverty drops “significantly”
One of the results of the 2019 National Household Survey (Enaho) is that 21.0% of households in Costa Rica live below the poverty line. This figure remains stable compared to 2018, when it was 21.1%. However, the same study carried out by the National Institute of Statistics and Census (INEC) reports that 5.8% of households […]
Brazil contradicts Alvarado over election support at the UN
The government of Jair Bolsonaro, in Brazil, publicly contradicted President Carlos Alvarado. A few hours after the Costa Rican president denied that Costa Rica and Brazil were jointly seeking votes for the two positions chosen on Thursday at the United Nations Human Rights Council, the Ministry of Foreign Affairs of Brazil (Itamaraty) called for a […]
Alvarado on defeat at the UN: “When you are consistent with the principles, there is no defeat.”
President Carlos Alvarado, made comments on social networks about the diplomatic defeat of his administration this Thursday, when it lost to Venezuela a position in the Human Rights Council of the United Nations (UN) for the period 2020-2022. When you are consistent with the principles, there is no possible defeat, just work ahead. We thank […]
UCR students take Social Science building
A group of students took the Social Sciences building of the University of Costa Rica (UCR), in support of the protesters of the National University (UNA). We inform you that at this moment some Schools of the Faculty of Social Sciences, including the School of Political Sciences, are being taken. We will close the building […]