The fact that last year’s strike in the Ministry of Public Education (MEP) was declared legal, did not prevent the dismissal proceedings against officials who left the country during this period. This continues and is resolved every week since then. There are some that for reasons of the procedure itself are abandoned because they may […]
Archives for March 2019
Lima Group of Lima convinced of Maduro’s increasing isolation
The countries that make up the block known as Grupo Lima, including Costa Rica, support the recent decision of the Inter-American Development Bank (IDB) and the Inter-American Investment Corporation (IIC) to ignore the representative of President Nicolás Maduro before this institution. They also celebrate that the IDB and the IIC decided to recognize Juan Guaidó’s […]
“Pirate” transporters created a gang of migrant smugglers
A group of “pirate” transporters were arrested suspected of being part of a migrant smuggling gang, according to the Ministry of Public Security. The investigation was carried out by the Professional Migration Police (PPM), through the Management of Investigations, Analysis and Intelligence, and under the functional direction of the Deputy Prosecutor’s Office against Trafficking in […]
Drought subjects Central America to pests and crop losses
Agronomists now have to monitor the return of an insect that years ago destroyed large areas of pine forests. It came with a drought caused by El Niño, a phenomenon that once again threatens agriculture and drinking water sources in Central America. Last January, President Juan Orlando Hernández warned of the return of Dendroctonus frontalis, […]
Crocodile seen in Jacó
On Saturday afternoon, a group of sunbathers who enjoyed the sea in Jacó, Puntarenas, warned that a crocodile was prowling near the mouth of a river near the beach. Immediately, tourists were told to leave due to the threat of the reptile, which looked at them from 30 meters inside the water and only with […]
Diplomats left the UN when Maduro’s chancellor arrived
On Thursday, several diplomats left a UN meeting on drugs in Vienna for the presence of Venezuelan Foreign Minister Jorge Arreaza, whom they deem an illegitimate representative of the country. Dozens of representatives from Latin American countries but also from the United States, Canada and some European countries, including France, left the room when Arreaza […]