As unusual as it sounds, in less than 7 hours the newly expanded bridge between Heredia and San José had a single lane once again. The 4-lane structure between La Uruca and La Valencia was inaugurated at noon on Thursday with the name Yolanda Oreamuno. But at around 6 o’clock in the afternoon, a group […]
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President Solís answered former president Arias back
Luis Guillermo Solís, President of the Republic, replied to former President and Nobel Peace Prize winner Oscar Arias’ criticism. During the inauguration of San José-Heredia new bridge, Solís said that Arias had not been very informed of what is happening in the country and that he was wrong when saying that this administration remained in […]
Alvarado urged the approval of a bill that would penalize child abuse
Legislator Fabricio Alvarado, from Partido de Restauración Nacional, urged the approval of a bill that would penalize child abuse. The legislator asked the heads of the parliamentary factions and the Board of the Legislative Assembly to support the request to convene the initiative to the extraordinary sessions of the Congress. The project sets penalties that […]
The most dangerous areas of Costa Rica were revealed
The Observatory of Violence from the Vice Ministry of Peace presented the second Catalog Record: Atlas of crime 2016, where the areas with more robberies, rapes and homicides were revealed. The data were provided by the Judicial Investigation Agency (OIJ) and they are presented through districts. According to Jairo Vargas, director of the General Directorate […]
Cruel attack against a woman in Naranjo
According to Carlos Hidalgo, a spokesman for the Ministry of Public Security, one day after Women’s Day, a woman was killed by her romantic partner in Palmitos de Naranjo, 250 meters from the cemetery of that canton of Alajuela. Hidalgo said the aggressor had fathered two children with the victim. One of the children witnessed […]
French-Swiss firm LafargeHolcim is ready to sell cement for Donald Trump’s wall
French-Swiss LafargeHolcim declared that it was ready to sell cement for infrastructure projects in the United States and the wall that President Donald Trump plans to build on the border with Mexico to prevent illegal immigration. The project, estimated at several tens of billions of dollars, is at the heart of a diplomatic crisis between […]