This weekend 350 people joined for an important social work: cleaning an area in which the leatherback, hawksbill and golf turtles will spawn soon. Massive cleaning was carried out in the Camaronal Wildlife Refuge, in the Tempisque Conservation Area in Guanacaste. The volunteers performed a cleaning of branches and other waste so that it is […]
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Treasury will insist on more debt issues
Satisfied with the results obtained with the first issuance of the Eurobonds, the Ministry of Finance is already ready to ask the legislators to authorize future issues. The presentation of the text would take place next December, at the beginning of the new special session of the Congress. The Director of Public Credit, Melvin Quirós, […]
Costa Rica hasn’t recognized the interim president of Bolivia
The government of Carlos Alvarado has not yet decided whether to recognize and support the interim president of Bolivia, Jeanine Áñez. This Thursday, Deputy Foreign Policy Director of the Ministry of Foreign Affairs, Alejandra Solano Cabalceta told the press that the Chancellor of the Republic, Manuel Ventura, is carrying out this assessment. The Chancellor is […]
New government of Bolivia recognizes Guaidó as president of Venezuela
On Thursday, the government of the interim president of Bolivia, Jeanine Áñez, recognized the opposition leader Juan Guaidó as president of Venezuela, by breaking the alliance with Nicolás Maduro that ex- president Evo Morales had, said the Minister of Communication, Roxana Lizárraga. Áñez has decided to recognize President Juan Guaidó,” Lizárraga told reporters, in her […]
US military: With Maduro drug trafficking increased more than 50%
Drug trafficking to and from Venezuela increased more than 50% with President Nicolás Maduro, a US military official on issues in the Caribbean and Central and South America said on Thursday, denouncing Maduro’s ties with organized crime. Admiral Craig Faller, head of the Southern Command, said that Maduro, in power since 2013, has favored the […]
Guatemala captures alleged drug lord wanted by the US
On Thursday, the police in Guatemala captured an alleged drug trafficker wanted by the United State. He’s a member of a historic local family clan related to the Mexican Sinaloa cartel of Joaquín el Chapo Guzmán. Guatemalan Haroldo Jeremías Lorenzana Cordón, 53, was arrested in a mountainous area of the village of La Reforma in […]