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During 2017, 495 transplants were performed in the country, most of them corneas. Information from the Ministry of Health indicates that there were exactly 495, 297 of which were cornea transplants, 120 organ transplants and 78 bone marrow transplants. Of the 120 organs, 104 were renal (40 with deceased donor and 64 with living donor), […]

Maureen Fallas, from the National Liberation Party (PLN), and Laura Garro, from the Citizen Action Party (PAC), presented a bill that seeks to expand access to the housing bond, through a reform to article 59 of the Law of the Financial System for Housing and creation of the Mortgage Bank of Housing (Banhvi). According to […]

The Consumer Confidence Index remained at a low level (40.9 on a scale of 100) from November 2017 until February 2018, which is an atypical situation since the country went through an electoral period, which normally causes an increase in the positive expectations of the people, as it happened in 2006, 2010 and 2014. It […]

On Tuesday, Fabricio Alvarado met with the former president of the Republic, Rafael Ángel Calderón, in search of advice and even support for the second round of elections. Alvarado arrived at the house of the former president in the company of his wife, Laura Moscoa and the candidate for the first vice president, Ivonne Acuña. […]

The candidate of the National Restoration party, Fabricio Alvarado, said on Wednesday morning that he had already ruled out the option of leaving the Inter-American Court of Human Rights, a position he had assumed on January 9th. Weeks ago he affirmed that it was not his first option and on Wednesday he stated they will […]

The number of murders that occurred between January and February 2018 far exceeds the figures reported in the same period in 2017. With the two crimes registered in the last hours in Paso Ancho and Tres Ríos de La Union, the numbers reached 101 crimes, six more than during the past year (the most violent […]