According to Mónica Solórzano, Executive Director of Educalcohol, the initiative was born of a consultation process that was carried out with young people and that allowed to understand what kind of social programs adolescents are looking for. The program “Vivo sin alcohol” (I live without alcohol) was created to prevent students at social risk from […]

Maureen Clarke, head of Partido de Liberación Nacional (PLN), asked her legislators not to be part of the paid trip promoted by the National Assembly of Nicaragua in order to visit that country over the weekend. Clarke declared that she sent a note to the 18 congressmen, which was addressed to her by former Minister […]

A Costa Rican policeman will be part of the observers who will be responsible for monitoring and verifying the weapons surrender, the  ceasefire and the halt in hostilities, as part of the peace process that is taking place in Colombia. It is Gilbert Brenes Gómez, an officer from the Public Force who has been working […]

On November 16th, he Ombudsman urged the authorities of the Costa Rican Social Security Fund (CCSS) to address the crisis of its emergency services. The deficiencies have been reported since 2015, and most of them are related to infrastructure, lack of specialists and lack of human resources. The Ombudsman’office considers that it should not be […]

Costa Rica was unanimously elected to the Vice-Presidency of the Assembly of States Parties to the International Criminal Court at The Hague, which was held at the opening of the XV Assembly. Costa Rican Ambassador to the Netherlands Sergio Ugalde will be in charge of this position, which also includes the General Coordination of The […]