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Sat, 20 Mar 2021 00:45:27 +0000
Can you choose which vaccine to receive?
QCOSTARICA – Right now, Costa Rica only has the Pfizer/BionTech vaccine, thus the question, if you can choose which vaccine against covid-19 to receive, does not yet apply. When the time comes, the country receives vaccines against covid-19 fro...

Sat, 20 Mar 2021 00:17:32 +0000
Country by Country Guide to Covid Vaccines in Central America
QCOSTARICA – Covid vaccination in Central America is well underway. Here’s an updated country guide to how they’re doing, as of March 18, 2021. The topic of vaccines is controversial, stirring up strong feelings on both sides of the debate....

Fri, 19 Mar 2021 23:02:28 +0000
Costa Rica asks India for donation of vaccines
QCOSTARICA – The Government of Costa Rica, in February, asked India for a donation of vaccines against covid-19, within the framework of the cooperative relations that both nations have. This was confirmed by the deputy minister of the Ministry...

Fri, 19 Mar 2021 17:32:02 +0000
Former Miss Costa Rica denounces sexist and obscene messages
Q MAGAZINE – Karina Ramos, mode, former Miss Costa Rica, businesswoman and host of the television program, Telehit Musica, denounced this week in her social networks numerous sexist and obscene messages that several men have sent her. On Twitte...

Fri, 19 Mar 2021 17:12:35 +0000
Thursday’s Downpour flooded the new Legislative Assembly building
HQ – The first downpour of 2021 – in March! – flooded part of the second floor of the new Legislative Assembly building. A video shared on social media chats by legislative employees leaves no question of what happened during Thursd...

Fri, 19 Mar 2021 16:10:25 +0000
Prevented from entering Havana, Cuban journalist asks for refuge in Costa Rica
QCOSTARICA – Cuban immigration authorities prevented Cuban journalist Karla Pérez González from returning to her country, after spending four years studying in Costa Rica and publishing news in various national media. Pérez said she made it ...

Fri, 19 Mar 2021 15:31:51 +0000
IMF-Backed Bill Sets Up Clash With Costa Rica’s Powerful Unions
(BLOOMBERG) Costa Rica is trying to rein in one of the world’s highest public sector wage bills, pitting powerful unions against the government and the International Monetary Fund. The government is trying to eliminate hundreds of top ups that it p...

Fri, 19 Mar 2021 15:21:58 +0000
Impossible to forget: Arenal Volcano at sunrise!
Photo by Joaquin Murillo Photography, who wrote on his Facebook post: “The photo was taken in April 2018. It was indeed a stroke of luck that the sun rose just to the left of the volcano. That took me totally by surprise. Impossible to forget t...

Fri, 19 Mar 2021 14:08:49 +0000
Assailants target the 7 kms road to the airport
QCOSTARICA – For San Jose, the route to the international airport will include the 7 kilometer stretch of the Autopista General Cañas, the same being targeted by assailants by placing obstructions on the road forcing drivers to stop and then a...

Fri, 19 Mar 2021 10:37:25 +0000
Murders of women at the hands of boyfriends and exes will also be femicides
QCOSTARICA – With 40 votes in favor and none against, Legislators approved on Wednesday a bill that expands the definition that constitutes the crime of femicide. With the new definition, the murders of women by boyfriends or former partners, f...



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