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From 5:30 a.m. on Sunday, about 30 people resumed the search for Gerlinde Hahne, the 75-year-old German tourist who disappeared on Thursday in the community of Las Delicias in Montezuma, Puntarenas. Raquel Moore, a friend of the family, explained that friends and family moved to Malpaís and Santa Teresa to place signs, as the police […]

If you didn’t fill the tank of your vehicle before midnight on Thursday, you missed your chance. RECOPE reported a new increase in the price of fuels to be enforced from early morning on Friday. Super gasoline increased ₡ 20, so the liter is now in ₡ 662; the plus increased ₡ 19 and the […]

The ceremony for the transfer of powers will be held next Tuesday in Plaza de la Democracia, which will involve a security device that will close streets surrounding the event site. From 6 am, vehicular and pedestrian access will be restricted from the National Park until the Courts of Justice. Only the duly accredited media […]

On May 8th, President-elect Carlos Alvarado will make a tour of the main roads of the capital to reach Plaza de la Democracia. Alvarado, his wife Claudia Dobles, and his cabinet will meet at the Costa Rican Art Museum in La Sabana and from there they will take a bus that will take them to […]

President Luis Guillermo Solís said on Wednesday that he did not mention the Cementazo scandal in his accountability speech because “it was not necessary,” stating that it was explained in the document. There was no shortage of criticism from legislators and several sectors, so Presidential House responded this Thursday, assuring that what happened around the […]

President Solís knows the non-approval of the tax reform during his administration is his responsibility as well as the previous group of legislators’, but he says the people are also responsible. The president will leave the Presidential House without the approval of the new taxes to alleviate the fiscal situation in Costa Rica, despite his […]