The president of Colombia, Juan Manuel Santos, celebrated on Monday the decision of the Constitutional Court to endorse a plebiscite as a mechanism of countersignature of the final agreement with the FARC guerrillas to end half a century of armed conflict. Colombians have been given the green light to approve the peace agreement with our […]

Representatives from different political parties are rushing the pace for the approval of the Water Resource Management bill, stalled in Congress since May 25, 2010. The proposal declares this resource as part of the public domain, establishes access to it and its quality as a right and regulates its use. The project, which entered the […]

Multiple studies show the need to modernize the country’s border crossings to prevent exporters and importers to continue spending up to 7 hours to complete immigration procedures to enter the national territory. The government says it has made a great progress. John Fonseca, deputy minister of Foreign Trade (COMEX) and chairman of the Council of […]

Reports of the crime of sex with minors almost tripled in ten years, as they went from 317 in 2005, to reach a total of 914 complaints in 2014. This was revealed by the Statistics Department of the Judiciary, where there is steady increase of complaints filed in courts for this offense in the last […]

With calls, messages and visits to homes, the Ministry of Public Education (MEP) seeks to outsmart the school drop rates after the midyear break. This indicator showed an increase in 2015, when 3,000 students left the classroom, compared to the same period of 2014. María Alexandra Ulate, coordinator of the corporate strategy “Yo me apunto” […]

The Ministry of Environment and Energy (MINAE) paid ¢23 million for compensation as a result of an expropriation carried out the previous year according to a report by the Comptroller General of the Republic (CGR). According to the court’s ruling, the ministry had to pay ¢ 3,160,905 colones. However, a payment of more than 26 […]