QCOSTARICA – After 40 years working in the Foreign Ministry, Xinia Vargas Mora will have the challenge of managing relations with Nicaragua, this Tuesday the government confirmed her appointment as Ambassador to Nicaragua. Vargas is a lawyer an...

QCOSTARICA – Fitch Ratings affirmed this Tuesday Costa Rica’s Long-Term Foreign-Currency Issuer Default Rating (IDR) at ‘B’ with a Negative Outlook. In its report, the rating firm explained Costa Rica’s ‘B’ r...

QCOSTARICA – The Minister of Health, Dr. Daniel Salas, in one of his rare television appearances of late, took the opportunity during the weekly press conference from Casa Presidencial, to for responsibility and asked people not to go “lo...

QCOSTARICA – A new generation of debit or credit cards with which you can pay for purchases, use online banking and even sign a loan, among many other possibilities, is beginning to be a reality in Costa Rica. The first exponent in the country ...

Cesar Moncada, his wife and two children have settled down on an abandoned porch. Three other Honduran families are hunkered down beside them in sleeping bags. They seem exhausted. It has taken them months to reach Mexico on foot. “We were tol...

(VOA News) LONDON – Venezuela says it will not authorize use of the COVID-19 vaccine jointly developed by Oxford University and British-Swedish drugmaker AstraZeneca. Vice President Delcy Rodriguez cited unspecified “effects on patients” ...

TODAY NICARAGUA – Daniel Ortega is an autocrat who rules Nicaragua with an iron fist. Of course, he is democratically elected by the Nicaraguan people. Nevertheless, he leaves no room for the opposition to make sure that he retains absolute power. ...

(Bloomberg) — Colombia has already paid a steep price in the pandemic with more than 61,000 deaths from Covid-19. Now the country faces another cost: about US$850 million to immunize its population. A healthcare workerr prepares a dose of the Sinov...

QCOSTARICA – Doña Ana María Rodríguez, 71, died on Wednesday (March 10), an hour after being vaccinated against covid-19 in Coronado. It is impossible to attribute the death to the vaccine, especially because she was hypertensive, diabetic, ...

QCOSTARICA – The government of Carlos Alvarado announced this Monday morning that Costa Rica signed an addendum to ensure the supply of one million additional doses of the Pfizer / BioNTech vaccine, with the aim of accelerating the pace of the ...