Emilia Navas, Attorney General ai, filed two complaints against the suspended Attorney General, Jorge Chavarría, because he dismissed two cases against Celso Gamboa in 2014, which were filed against him when he held the position of Minister of Security in this administration. According to Navas, Chavarría had to refrain from knowing the causes because of […]
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The US will be the only country outside the Paris Agreement
On Tuesday, Syria announced at COP23 in Bonn its intention to join the agreement to fight climate change in Paris, according to an NGO, which would leave the United States as the only nation in the world willing to stay out of the agreement. They have said that they will adhere to the Paris Agreement,” […]
NASA satellites would help prevent diseases
NASA satellites would play a key role in the prevention, detection and treatment of diseases related to climate change. This is a subject of study for the experts of Division of Earth Science of NASA, which was discussed at the National Medical Congress. On this specific topic, the Costa Rican engineer Sandra Kauffman, deputy director […]
Accumulated inflation reached 1.93% in October
The accumulated inflation between January and October this year amounted to 1.93% , according to the variation of the Consumer Price Index (CPI), calculated by the National Institute of Statistics and Census (INEC). Of the 315 goods and services that make up the consumer basket, 45% increased in price, 38% decreased in price and 17% […]
New BCR manager linked to cementazo
The Board of Directors of the Bank of Costa Rica appointed as interim general manager Eduardo Ramírez, a lawyer linked to the cementazo. This was denounced by legislator Patricia Mora , from Frente Amplio, during an intervention in the Legislative Plenary. According to the lawmaker, Ramírez, who at the time was legal director of the […]
Deaths rise due to electoral violence in Nicaragua
The number of deaths caused by violence after the elections in Nicaragua increased to seven, with the death of two demonstrators in Bilwi, in the Autonomous Region of the North Atlantic (RAAN), according to political sources and NGOs. Two young men, whose identity was not specified, followers of the Yatama indigenous party, died during clashes […]