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The National Liberation Party (PLN) proposes a pause in the legislative process of the fiscal plan, to establish the dialogue between the government and the unions. However, for that to happen, the latter must call off the strike and the blockades on national roads. According to Carlos Ricardo Benavides, head of fraction of the PLN, […]

Security Minister Michael Soto said that the Public Force intervened access to the ports of Limón to allow the entry and exit of containers with goods. Soto said that in the police troops will remain in place to prevent access to ports being blocked by the protesters. The leader even called on the exporters to […]

Several gas stations in the Greater Metropolitan Area (GAM) reported shortages on Monday due to the high demand of drivers who have come to fill the tanks of their vehicles. The press made a tour and found that four gas stations in Guadeloupe are closed for lack of liquid, as well as those located in […]

On Monday afternoon, the Public Force ordered the unionists to open the way for the tankers to get in RECOPE’s campus located in La Garita de Alajuela. The unions had “regulated” the entry of trucks and only allowed three trucks per hour. The Public Force, without violence, opened the way for the facility to operate […]

Although they are not part of the strike movement or support it, fuel transporters suspended the service in order to protect the safety of their drivers, who have been exposed to long hours of work and with limited access to basic services. The lack of safety and poor conditions that transporters have faced in the […]

José Miguel Masís, director of the Chamber of Fuel Distributors, confirmed that due to the constant blockades by protesters, there are serious problems with the supply of fuel in various areas of the country, mainly in the provinces of Guanacaste and Puntarenas. Whoever threatens to burn a cistern is not a protester but a terrorist,” […]