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

A video captured the moment when a jaguar named María was teaching her two young to fight for their lives in the Dry Forest of Guanacaste. The post was shared on Facebook, on the Jaguar Program of the National University profile, to celebrate Mother’s Day. According to the publication of the university program, María is […]

Three men named Ruiz Ríos, Junez Juarez, and Ruiz González were arrested by Border Police officers on Guanacaste, since they were carrying seven fighting cocks and 98 spurs made from the scales of the shell of The hawksbill turtle. The information was released by the Guanacaste Conservation Area, which indicated that biologist Maike Heidemeyer, coordinator […]

The authorities of the Costa Rican Social Security Fund (CCSS) showed that the decision of the central government to issue a decree that established “new” conditions on annuities was the trigger for the strike. It is a complex situation, obviously we would have preferred that there was only one decree, but we do not have […]

The price of the dollar reached a new low in Monex wholesale market. At the end of the day it stood at ¢569.1, a value that had not been seen for almost a year. This means that on Wednesday, in this market, the dollar is ¢40 lower than at the beginning of the year. On […]

The effects of tropical wave number 24 made the National Emergency Commission (CNE) declare green and yellow alerts in various parts of the country. The green alert goes to the Central Valley and North Pacific; while the yellow one is for the North Zone, Caribbean, Central Pacific and South. Since last night we have been […]

If you have to buy gasoline this week, be prepared, because the increase has already come into effect. The good news is that the increase is not as significant and it will only be between one and three colones more. The increase corresponds to the update of the Single Tax according to Executive Decree No. […]