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Fri, 20 May 2022 09:41:02 +0000
Costa Rica is listed as one of the countries with the most “sugar daddies”
QCOSTARICA – The term “sugar daddy” was born to describe men who tend to pamper younger women with economic luxuries since for them money is never a problem. This is also usually presented vice versa, where women who fulfill this ro...

Thu, 19 May 2022 13:37:20 +0000
Jill Biden visits Costa Rica this weekend
QCOSTARICA – The first lady of the United States, Jill Biden, and Ashley Biden, one of her three children, will visit Costa Rica this weekend as part of a tour that will also include Panama and Ecuador, confirmed the US Embassy in Costa Rica. B...

Thu, 19 May 2022 13:17:45 +0000
Rodrigo Chaves and journalists clash for the truth. Who is lying?
QCOSTARICA – In the second week of the new government, the ill-concealed annoyance between President Rodrigo Chaves and some of the media reached new dimensions. Through his Twitter account, President Rodrigo Chaves denied an alleged government...

Thu, 19 May 2022 12:46:01 +0000
Gasoline would drop by ¢28 and diesel by ¢43 due to changes in Aresep’s methodology
QCOSTARICA – As the headline reads, we are in for a drop in gasoline prices, but it will take some to feel the regulatory authority’s proposed reduction of ¢28 per liter on super gasoline, ¢27 on regular, and ¢43 on diesel as an effect...

Thu, 19 May 2022 09:36:25 +0000
President: If the extension of ruta 27 is in the contract “we will enforce it”
QCOSTARICA – What will happen to the expansion of Ruta 27 that connects San José with Caldera? The answer is still uncertain. The previous administration maintained a negotiation process with the Ruta 27 concessionaire, Globalvia Ruta 27, on t...

Thu, 19 May 2022 07:48:29 +0000
If Latin America has a commercial capital, it is Miami
Q REPORTS (Economist) For Joan Didion, an American essayist, Miami in the 1980s was “not exactly an American city…but a tropical capital: long on rumor, short on memory, overbuilt on the chimera of runaway money”. Nearly 40 years later, the pla...

Wed, 18 May 2022 13:13:35 +0000
Pilar Cisneros: “The government should be totally open to the press”
QCOSTARICA – The press must have access to public information without any type of restriction or censorship, empathized Pilar Cisneros, the head of the Partido Progreso Social Democratico (PPSD) legislative faction, who denied that the governme...

Wed, 18 May 2022 12:53:27 +0000
Arrival of tourists from the U.S. and Europe recovers
QCOSTARICA – Costa Rica registered for April 2022 the best numbers of tourist arrivals by air since the start of the Covid-19 pandemic. With the arrival of 213,714 tourists, in April 2022, the first four-month period becomes the period with the...

Wed, 18 May 2022 08:08:13 +0000
Fifth wave of covid-19 advances at an accelerated pace; Infections rise 35% in the last week
QCOSTARICA – For the fourth consecutive week, Costa Rica registers an increase in the number of covid-19 infections, in what would be the fifth pandemic wave. According to the Ministry of Health, infections went from 7,558 new cases in epidemio...

Wed, 18 May 2022 07:55:04 +0000
Casa Presidencial orders secrecy in public institutions
QCOSTARICA – Jorge Rodríguez Vives, head of the Office of the President, ordered this Tuesday the Communication directors of public institutions to limit the flow of public information. “Don’t look at it as censorship, but as absolute ...



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