A third woman denounced former president of Costa Rica and Nobel Peace Prize winner Óscar Arias Sánchez of sexual harassment. This complaint joins the one raised on Monday by a psychiatrist named Arce and a second complaint by journalist “Nono Antillón”. The also journalist Emma Daly, who worked for the Tico Times and Reuters news […]

A shipment of Costa Rican bananas was confiscated by Guatemalan authorities in Puerto Quetzal, Escuintla, in the Pacific region of the country, where they found about 40 drug packages hidden in several boxes with the agricultural product. Apparently, the ship’s final destination was the United States. The confiscated “goods” have a value in the illicit […]

Costa Rica is in favor of a bilateral agreement with Mexico, which allows for a joint and direct conciliation regarding the restriction imposed by the country on the entry of hass avocado from Mexico. This was explained by Dyalá Jiménez, Minister of Foreign Trade, who indicated that this has been the spirit of this government, […]

Former president Óscar Arias Sánchez (1986-1990 and 2006-2010) was criminally accused on Monday by a 34-year-old psychiatrist who said the politician touched her in her breasts, her private parts, and forcibly kissed her during a meeting held at the house of the former president, in Rohrmoser (Pavas) on December 1st, 2014. Patricia Mora, executive president […]

The Public Ministry refused to prosecute two women who managed to register their marriage thanks to an error in the registration, because the unions between two people of the same sex are no longer a crime. The reason for the request (to the Court) was based on the atypical nature of the case, ie, in […]

The Presidential House said it has no responsibility on the drafting of the bill that seeks to prevent legislators from modifying the bills sent to the Congress by the Executive Power. This Tuesday, through a communication sent by the press office, the Minister of the Presidency, Rodolfo Piza, said that this approach is part of […]