Daniel Ortega, president of Nicaragua, fired his ambassador in Costa Rica, Harold Rivas. He also removed Rivas’ wife, Jeanette Pérez, who served as Nicaragua’s consul in Costa Rica. The reasons behind this decision are still unknown, according to Nicaraguan media. The Government of Reconciliation and National Unity, presided over by Commander José Daniel Ortega Saavedra, […]
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Exports of goods grew 7% in 2017
Exports of goods amounted to $10,665 million during 2017, 7% more than in 2016, according to the Minister of Foreign Trade (COMEX), Alexander Mora. The main export sectors are medical and precision equipment, equivalent to 27% of the total, and agriculture, with 26%. These sectors grew at a rate of 11% and 5%, respectively. Exports […]
Political parties omit what they’ll do to improve infrastructure
According to the last report of the World Economic Forum, out of the 22 Latin American countries under study, Costa Rica ranks twentieth, being one of the countries with the worst road infrastructure. Besides that, it has 30 years of lag in the subject, and technological inability and indebtedness grow every day, according to four […]
Five policemen died after bomb attack in Colombia
At least five police officers were killed and 41 were wounded this Saturday in an attack with explosives against a barracks in the Colombian city of Barranquilla, which was attributed at first to drug trafficking gangs. This is one of the worst attacks committed in recent years against the security forces in one of the […]
Honduras repeats president: first day full of protests
The president of Honduras, Juan Orlando Hernández, took office for the second consecutive time on Saturday amid protests by the opposition, which continues to claim that there was a fraud in the controversial elections held in November. Hernández received the presidential band in a session of the Congress in the National Stadium of the capital, […]
PAC proposes including credit frauds in the Criminal Code
Legislator Javier Cambronero, head of the fraction of the Citizen Action Party (PAC), presented a bill to include the credit frauds as a crime in the Criminal Code. According to the legislator, adding this type of crime to the Costa Rican legal framework is necessary to punish unscrupulous clients who cheat banks or financial entities. […]