The legislators of the Security and Drug Trafficking Commission approved a text that replaces the draft law for the extinction of ownership, which seeks to transfer the assets acquired through illicit activities to the State. According to Gustavo Viales, president of the legislative forum, this text has the endorsement of the Costa Rican Institute on […]
Archives for April 2019
Solís washes his hands: “The BCR had to make decisions”
Costa Rican former president Luis Guillermo Solís evaded any responsibility on the decisions made regarding the cementazo scandal and pointed directly to the board of directors of the Bank of Costa Rica as the ones who had to make decisions. According to Solís, his decision on the issue was limited to requesting the resignation of […]
Volunteers will clean María Aguilar River tomorrow
Picking waste left by humans in nature is always a good action and you can do it too on April 27th. For the sixth consecutive year, “Manos Unidas por el María Aguilar” will carry out a clean-up campaign on that river and in four sectors of the Greater Metropolitan Area between 8:00 and 11:30 am, […]
President supports Finance Minister and National Treasurer
President Carlos Alvarado is backing the finance minister, Rocío Aguilar, amid criticism from different political sectors in Congress that hold her responsible for approving debt payments without budgetary content, in the midst of the missing liquidity faced by the government of Alvarado for the fiscal gap of ¢900 billion left by the administration of Luis […]
US patrol finds a three-year-old boy alone on the border with Mexico
US agents found a three-year-old boy crying in a corn field on the border with Mexico, with his name and a phone number written on his shoes, US authorities said on Wednesday. The federal agency of Customs and Border Protection (CBP) said the boy was found early on Tuesday morning. He was “abandoned” by a […]
Costa Rica supports re-election of OAS Secretary General
This Wednesday, the national government announced that it will support the candidacy of Luis Almagro for his reelection to the General Secretariat of the Organization of American States (OAS). The support was made official by the Chancellor of the Republic, Manuel Ventura, after a meeting he held with Almagro in Washington DC. The Secretary General, […]