Costa Rican former president Luis Guillermo Solís evaded any responsibility on the decisions made regarding the cementazo scandal and pointed directly to the board of directors of the Bank of Costa Rica as the ones who had to make decisions. According to Solís, his decision on the issue was limited to requesting the resignation of […]
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Volunteers will clean María Aguilar River tomorrow
Picking waste left by humans in nature is always a good action and you can do it too on April 27th. For the sixth consecutive year, “Manos Unidas por el María Aguilar” will carry out a clean-up campaign on that river and in four sectors of the Greater Metropolitan Area between 8:00 and 11:30 am, […]
President supports Finance Minister and National Treasurer
President Carlos Alvarado is backing the finance minister, Rocío Aguilar, amid criticism from different political sectors in Congress that hold her responsible for approving debt payments without budgetary content, in the midst of the missing liquidity faced by the government of Alvarado for the fiscal gap of ¢900 billion left by the administration of Luis […]
US patrol finds a three-year-old boy alone on the border with Mexico
US agents found a three-year-old boy crying in a corn field on the border with Mexico, with his name and a phone number written on his shoes, US authorities said on Wednesday. The federal agency of Customs and Border Protection (CBP) said the boy was found early on Tuesday morning. He was “abandoned” by a […]
Costa Rica supports re-election of OAS Secretary General
This Wednesday, the national government announced that it will support the candidacy of Luis Almagro for his reelection to the General Secretariat of the Organization of American States (OAS). The support was made official by the Chancellor of the Republic, Manuel Ventura, after a meeting he held with Almagro in Washington DC. The Secretary General, […]
Vaccine against the papilloma virus will be applied at the end of May
The 35 thousand doses against the Human Papillomavirus (HPV) arrived in the country and the vaccination campaign will begin the last week of May. The executive president of the Costa Rican Social Security Fund (CCSS), Román Macaya, said that they are going through a process of quality control, and then they will be applied. The […]