Costa Rica News, Summarized in English and Linked to the Source

Yesterday, the Public Force was working in the evacuation of people in the North of the country, due to river flooding caused by heavy rains. The emergency occurred in the sector of Caño Ciego de Los Chiles, where several families had to be evacuated due to the flooded canal. About 14 people were affected. There […]

Legislator and founder of Partido Acción Ciudadana (PAC), Ottón Solís, called on the Legislative Assembly to expedite the process of a Constitutional Reform that would sanction Legislators with the withdrawal of their credentials if they fail to their probity duty. Here at the Assembly we talk about ethics, we criticize others for corruption, but we […]

On Monday afternoon rains and riots filled the capital. The video reveals how the confrontations between street vendors and police officers began in downtown San José. The incident occurred in Central Avenue and 8th Street, next to the Central Market at the time that the Municipal Police conducted a search on a group of peddlers […]

Legislator Fabricio Alvarado, from Restaruración Nacional Party, filed a writ of amparo against Sports Minister Carolina Mauri and the Costa Rican Institute for Sport and Recreation (ICODER) for refusing to give him information on the construction of the Aquatic Center in La Sabana. The legislator explained that Law 7361 establishes a prohibition to build in […]

INCOFER suspended the train service between Cartago and San José indefinitely. Some travels between Pavas and San José were also suspended. The rains during the weekend caused a collapse in the railroad. There is a hole 3 meters long and 3 meters deep in Guayabos de Curridabat. Cristhian Vargas, President of INCOFER, expressed that the […]