Between Saturday and Sunday, a total of 35 earthquakes of varying magnitudes and depth were registered in the country. According to information from the Seismological and Vulcanological Observatory of Costa Rica (OVSICORI), the most recent tremor occurred at 11:22 am, southwest of Playa Palma in Parrita, Puntarenas, with a magnitude of just 1.7 degrees. But […]
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Limón will have no water on Monday
Residents of several communities in Limón will start the week without drinking water service due to maintenance work on the electrical installations of Moín Station. The Costa Rican Institute of Aqueducts and Sewers (AyA) reported that the interruption of the service will be on Monday, December 16th from 9:00 am to 11:00 pm in the […]
Argentina grants refugee status to Evo Morales
Bolivian former president Evo Morales arrived in Buenos Aires on Thursday as an asylum seeker and will receive refugee status, two days after President Alberto Fernández took office in Argentina. Morales arrived in Buenos Aires from Cuba with total secrecy, along with his former Vice President Álvaro García Linera, former Foreign Minister Diego Pary, former […]
Presidency orders disciplinary actions against “coffee with gold”
The Presidential House ordered the Foreign Ministry to take “disciplinary actions” in the case of the trip approved for Daniel Barquero Rivera to travel for two months to the Arab Emirates. Barquero was sent to Dubai in an “outpost” to prepare the trip that the president, Carlos Alvarado, will make to that country next January. […]
Why was the Mayor of Limón arrested?
The arrest of the mayor of Limón, Néstor Mattis Williams, occurred on Thursday morning by the Judicial Investigation Agency (OIJ) and the Prosecutor’s Office and the Public Ministry began to process a possible request for precautionary measures against the Criminal Court of the Atlantic Zone. Next to him, the engineer of the Municipality of Limón, […]
Hospital Mexico ran out of blood
The blood bank of Hospital México is running out of reserves and has already begun to decrease the amount of blood resources that are provided to patients; for example, if a patient requires six units, only four or five are sent. The situation is so serious that they made an urgent call for blood donations […]