On Thursday, President Donald Trump threatened to close the US border with Mexico if Mexico does not block the flow of migrants from Central America, at a time when a caravan of thousands of Hondurans is moving north. I must, in the strongest terms, ask Mexico to stop this, and if it fails to do […]

Next week, the Joint Commission of Taxpayers and the Ministry of Public Works and Transportation (MOPT) will start the draft for the final version of the proposed law to regulate public transport services provided by taxi drivers, Uber, and other collaborative platforms. As explained by Rubén Vargas, general secretary of the Union of Costa Rican […]

Jorge Arreaza Montserrat, Venezuelan chancellor and former vice president of that country, harshly attacked the government of Costa Rica after Carlos Alvarado finally decided to support a lawsuit against the Maduro regime before the International Criminal Court (CPI) for crimes against humanity in that South American country. Arreaza, who came to the transfer of powers […]

In the midst of the strike against the fiscal plan, the National Salary Council (CNS) began the hearings with sector representatives to fix the increase in minimum wages for the private sector in 2019. The representatives of the Unitary Union and Social Costarican Unity Block (BUSSCO) presented a proposal for a general 2.96% increase and […]

The Ombudsman’s Office clarified that it did not request, nor is it coordinating a work visit of the Inter-American Commission on Human Rights (IACHR) in attention to the strike held by the unions against the tax reform. The clarification arises after fake information went viral on social media. It was said that the IACHR would […]

The number of people in shelters as a result of the rains and floods of the last hours rose again. This Tuesday there were only 26 people in shelters; however, during the night another 479 from Guanacaste had to be mobilized as a preventive measure. Now, there are 505 people. This Tuesday there were shelters […]