On Monday night it was confirmed that the Costa Rican Social Security Fund (CCSS) will not apply the cost control measure called fiscal rule. The exoneration is part of the agreements between the government and health unions to end the strike that affected the sector in the last week. As it is read in point […]

Last Thursday, INEC announced that July inflation was 0.73%, the highest of the year and first since the VAT came into effect. However, the Central Bank reported that this result is consistent with the provisions of the 2019-2020 Macroeconomic Program of January 2019, and its recent review last month. The inflation projections in these documents […]

The lack of a specific law is an obstacle so that this country’s anti-drug authorities can counteract the use of clandestine tracks through which aircraft with large quantities of drugs are mobilized. Public Security Minister Michael Soto confirmed that in Costa Rica there are more than 105 landing spaces of an illegal nature, many of […]

Around 100 volunteers from different organizations and companies gathered on Saturday morning in order to plant 84 trees of 12 different native species in La Sabana Metropolitan Park. This was the first planting day in 2019, the last year of intervention of the rearrangement project baptized as “Una Nueva Sabana”. The initiative aims to reach […]

A study by the United Nations Development Program (UNDP) and the Research Institute in Economic Sciences (IICE) of the University of Costa Rica (UCR), announced that putting a tax on plastic would have Low economic impact. Since the effects of the tax depend on the ability of people to react, the research focuses on possible […]

The voting centers opened this Sunday in Guatemala to elect the future president in a ballot between the social democrat Sandra Torres and the conservative Alejandro Giammattei, whose winner will have the challenge of facing poverty, corruption and criminal violence. I ask all citizens to vote, it is the opportunity we have to be able […]