Once again the Guatemalan Congress prevented a criminal investigation against President Jimmy Morales, failing to reach enough votes to withdraw his immunity, since he was accused of corruption by the prosecution and a UN anti-mafia commission. In a new vote, the legislators reached 70 votes in favor and 42 against and did not reach the […]

On Thursday morning, the body of an elderly woman over 80 years old, was found in a vehicle in Juan Santamaria airport. According to the Red Cross department, she was found by gate 7 inside a car.” According to preliminary police reports, it seems it was an assault that occurred in the (apparently German) woman’s […]

Entrepreneurs grouped in the Costa Rican Union of Chambers and Private Sector Associations (UCCAEP) expressed their concern about what they believe is an attempt to give an interventionist role to the State in food and nutrition. This is what they say about the draft law 20.076, which seeks to create 82 cantonal committees to decide […]

The trial of four physicians and a Greek merchant, suspected of forming a trafficking group for the purpose of illicit extraction of organs, was supposed to continue on Thursday afternoon. However, a bomb alert at 2:15 p.m. caused the evacuation of all the buildings that make up the First Circuit of San José. Apparently, it […]

Officials of the Border Police chased and arrested an alleged human trafficker in Tablillas de Los Chiles, a town in the province of Alajuela. According to police reports, the suspect is surnamed Salinas, 26, and is a neighbor of this border community. The agents surprised him with two people, a 17-year-old teenager and his adult […]

Criminals have been contacting banks customers over the phone and e-mail under the pretext of providing their IBAN account number, but with the purpose of tricking them. The IBAN is a 22-digit figure that is used as a unique identifier for accounts and cards, so that it serves for local and international transfers, which will […]