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The Ministry of Finance has already illegally used 48 billion colones from the second extraordinary budget, because it still does not have the backing of the Legislative Assembly, confirmed Rocío Aguilar. Aguilar informed that these funds correspond to maturities and, therefore, chose to pay them instead of avoiding the collection and interest or debt. The […]

The Executive Power has revoked the project of extinction of domain whose objective is to take away illegal assets to drug trafficking and organized crime. According to Casa Presidencial, this agreement responds to the request of the legislators of the Commission that analyzes the strategy. The idea is presenting a new proposal that is being […]

The recent viral video showing turtles being killed is true, but it is not in Costa Rica as it has been made to believe in social networks. The recording was made on the beaches of San Juan del Sur in Nicaragua, not on the beaches of El Coco in Guanacaste. Nicaraguan media reported that the […]

The Ministry of Health, the Municipality of Oreamuno de Cartag,o and the Administrative Environmental Court ignored for seven years the complaints about an open-air dump that generates pollution and health problems for the residents of Blanquillo Urbanization. The Constitutional Chamber, after an appeal filed against the inaction of these institutions, ordered them to inspect and […]

A security officer of a private condominium joined forces with a criminal group to assault and kill an 80-year-old German woman who lived in Piedades de Santa Ana. The Judicial Investigation Agency (OIJ) arrested three people linked to the death of the woman identified as Rosemarie Dietich. She was a pensioner of a German bank […]