Oil opened with a slight fall in New York, with difficulties to recover from the sharp decline of the previous day and the distrust on the prospects of reabsorption of the world supply. The price of a light sweet crude (WTI), the US benchmark, was down six cents to $50.38 for the May delivery contract […]

The first meeting of the Indigenous Advisory Council of the Ministry of Public Education (MEP) was held on Wednesday. This is the first time in 24 years and the aim is to open the dialogue table to determine what the issues to be addressed in the indigenous population are and their needs within the education […]

The US airline Southwest notified the United States Department of Transportation of its objection to Volaris Costa Rica flying to the United States with the privileges granted to Costa Rican stock companies. This procedure responds to the interest by Volaris – a Costa Rican company with Mexican capital- of flying to Houston, Los Angeles and […]

The Costa Rican Ambassador to El Salvador, Carlos Manuel Echeverría, was removed from his position. On April 25th, he will leave office in that country. The decision of the dismissal was ratified by the Governing Council, in the session held on Tuesday. Both the appointment and the removal of the Ambassadors are […] in the […]

President Luis Guillermo Solís was firm in his response to the Venezuelan Foreign Affairs Minister Delcy Rodríguez, who said the document signed by Costa Rica and 10 other Latin American countries was a “rude interference”. The document blamed the Venezuelan government for the death of civilians and also asked to define the dates for the […]

In the last decade, the prison population in Costa Rica grew by 60%. This important increase is due to three factors: the application of pre-trial arrest, flagrante delicto courts and increased convictions in ordinary trials. This is revealed by the Second Report of the State of Justice, released on Wednesday morning. The number of people […]