Assaults such as those suffered by Grecia the toucan and Duke the dog, have caused outrage in the population and fueled the discussion on the need for further sanctions on those who cause malicious harm to animals, an issue that was promised during the last election campaign and that is still unfulfilled. In March, the […]
Hatred killed Beauchamp Durán children
What could have driven Michael Adrián Salmerón to commit the heinous crime in Matapalo? As determined by the judge, a deep hatred against Yeimmy Jessica Durán Guerra was the trigger for the multiple homicide against five members of the Beauchamp Durán family. Salmerón, 24, was sentenced to 183 years in prison for stabbing to death […]
CR close to falling into undesirable list
Is Costa Rica on the verge of falling into list of countries that do not cooperate in the fight against terrorism? The question arose on Thursday because the Legislature did not meet the deadline to approve a legal reform that criminalizes terrorist financing. The Financial Action Task Force (FATF) called for the country to meet […]
Economy will grow less in the second half of the year
The second half of 2016 will see a slowdown in economic activity as a result of the global slowdown and therefore of the main trading partners: the United States and Europe. The IMF and the World Bank now forecast less than 4% of production growth at the end of the year, despite the Central Bank […]
90 kilos of cocaine on a dock in Puntarenas
On Wednesday night, officers of the security forces were patrolling around El Carmen neighborhood in Puntarenas, when they saw some suspicious individuals near a dock. Upon arrival, they located 90 kilos of abandoned cocaine. According to the Ministry of Public Security, a group of officers working on recovery of public spaces in Mora y Cañas […]
Legislature receives global agreement to fight climate change
The Paris Agreement, a global initiative against climate change, was admitted on Thursday in the Legislature. The project was presented to interim President of Congress, José Alberto Alfaro, by the Minister of Foreign Affairs, Manuel González, the Minister of Environment and Energy, Edgar Gutiérrez. This is a legal instrument signed in December 2015 by 195 […]