Costa Rica News, Summarized in English and Linked to the Source

Officers of the Drug Control Police (PCD) and the National Coast Guard Service (SNG) of the Ministry of Public Security arrested three subjects who transported a total of 346 kilograms of cocaine and five kilos and 312 grams of marijuana. This operation occurred when the authorities intercepted a boat in the Pacific Ocean, specifically at […]

Only between 2016 and 2017, 52 femicides occurred in Costa Rica (…) Behind this – without a doubt – there was abuse and fear… You and I can change history. So we are going to build a Costa Rica without violence.” This is the message of a campaign created by the Attorney General of the […]

More than 200 volunteers organized to clean the Camaronal Beach in Guanacaste in order to facilitate the spawning process of around 1000 turtles. About five kilometers of coastline were cleared and cleaned, allowing access for olive ridley, hawksbill and leatherback turtles, species that nest in the area each month. We want to have a positive […]

The candidate of the Citizen Action Party, Carlos Alvarado, and former president Rafael Ángel Calderón, met to address several topics, but focused mainly on two: the economic and social problems of the country, specifically referring to poverty. My government ended 24 years ago. It was the last government that brought poverty down in this country […]

Celso Gamboa Sánchez, magistrate suspended from the Supreme Court of Justice, lost his immunity on Thursday and will now be tried for alleged influence peddling to the detriment of the duties of the public function. In a historical vote, 45 legislators left him without the special jurisdiction that protected him from being prosecuted for the […]