The Ministry of Security announced on Monday the strengthening of preventive programs in the country’s border areas to fight crimes such as human trafficking. The entity announced new resources for the delegations of Los Chiles, Upala, San Carlos, Talamanca, La Cruz, Sarapiquí, Corredores, and Coto Brus. The investment will prevent problems such as violence and […]
Economist Fiorella Salazar is the new Deputy Minister of Security
The Ministry of Public Security announced on Monday that Fiorella Salazar Rojas is the new deputy minister of Public Safety, focused on the administrative route. The entity said that Salazar has a bachelor’s degree in economics from the University of Costa Rica and a master’s degree in project management from the University for International Cooperation […]
American woman was murdered inside her camper in San Ramón
Several days after her disappearance, Melida Thomas Dixon was found dead with stab wounds inside a camper van. The 67-year-old American was found in the early hours of Monday, after an alert made by her son who hadn’t been able to contact her on the phone for several days. The discovery occurred in a rural […]
Firefighters rescue turtle on Isla del Coco
Firefighters from the Isla del Coco station helped a Kemp’s ridley turtle, after a group of conservationists aboard the Sharkwater boat found it pressed into a fishing net. At the request of the park guards of the Isla del Coco National Park, fire paramedics in consultation with veterinarians of the Fire Department, applied medications to […]
Trees that help the climate are more abundant in tropical forests
A study published recently by the journal Nature Ecology and Evolution (NEE), showed that nitrogen fixing trees, of the Leguminosae family, are more abundant in secondary tropical forests of seasonally dry and young zones, than in secondary forests of humid zones and with more development time. This is considered a transcendental data for the restoration […]
OAS: Fire in Nicaragua is a crime against humanity
Luis Almagro, secretary general of the Organization of American States (OAS), described the fire that occurred in Nicaragua this Saturday as a crime against humanity. Six people died in the fire: four adults and two babies. According to the preliminary versions, the fire was caused by police and orteguista paramilitary because the family refused to […]