Several sectors of Alajuela, Heredia and San José will have power outages during this week. Today, from 8 am to 4 pm, the electricity service will be interrupted at Guácima Abajo, in Alajuela. The suspension will be carried out in order to change posts. According to the National Company of Force and Light (CNFL), these […]
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Gold rush in Crucitas
According to a former worker, gold miners from Las Juntas de Abangare are migrating to Crucitas, in San Carlos. The reason is that after years of working in the area, as reported by the source, the gold extraction in Las Juntas de Abangares ceased to be an attractive and profitable activity. In that Pacific area, […]
If you want to go to San José, yo need to transfer in Heredia
The Costa Rican Railways Institute (INCOFER) confirmed that in order to travel from Alajuela to San José, a person has to transfer to a new unit in Heredia. This involves buying a new ticket and boarding another transport unit. This was explained by María Fernanda Arias, spokeswoman for INCOFER before a consultation on the implementation […]
Turrialba’s volcanic activity is decreasing again
Turrialba volcano started the day with very little activity and it only recorded a slight plume of steam without expulsion of ash. Eliécer Duarte, an expert at the Volcanological and Seismological Observatory of Costa Rica (OVSICORI), said that the volcano emanations have become extremely weak, it has expelled water gases, sulfur dioxide and hydrogen disulfide. […]
The Legislative Assembly approved 1,297 rules with no budgetary content in the last 65 years
The Legislative Assembly approved 1,297 rules with no budgetary content in the last 65 years. This was revealed by a study conducted by the Department of Parliamentary Services and the State of the Nation Program. The investigation was made based on the budgets approved between 1950 and 2016 . Jorge Vargas Cullell, director of the […]
Venezuelan government: “there wasn’t a coup d’etat in our country”
The Venezuelan government said that it was “false” that a coup d’état had been perpetrated in the country after the supreme court took over the powers of the vastly opposing parliament. It is false that a coup d’etat has taken place in Venezuela. On the contrary, its institutions have adopted legal corrections to stop the […]