QCOSTARICA (Nacion.com) Four out of ten complaints of extortion filed with the Organismo de Investigación Judicial (OIJ), San José headquarters, in the first half of 2022, were derived from the victims’ search for sexual services on the Inter...

Q24N (Reuters) Buenos Aires – Argentina’s central bank raised its benchmark interest rate by 950 basis points on Thursday as the country struggles to keep a lid on spiraling inflation that rose to a 20-year high of 71%, according to new d...

QCOSTARICA – The cost of the vehicular inspection will decrease between 44% and 49%, very similar to the proposal made by the Ministry of  Public Works and Transportation (MOPT) three weeks ago. On Friday, it was announced that the regulatory ...

QCOSTARICA – The Refinadora Costarricense de Petróleo (RECOPE) – Costa Rica refinery that refines nothing – raised before the Regulatory Authority a reduction of up to ¢156 in the price of fuels. The RECOPE request of the Autorida...

QCOSTARICA – President Rodrigo Chaves, on behalf of Costa Rica, reported Thursday that “he did not oppose” the election of the Nicaraguan, Werner Vargas, for the General Secretariat of the System for Central American Integration (SI...

QCOSTARICA (Reuters) Costa Rica is readying a plan to regularize the status of some 200,000 migrants, largely from Costa Rica’s northern neighbor Nicaragua, authorities told Reuters on Wednesday. The plan aims to formally include the migrants i...

QCOSTARICA – The College of Economic Sciences (Colegio de Ciencias Económicas) predicted an increase in poverty for the remainder of 2022, after recent figures on the cost of living, which reveal a year-on-year inflation of 11.48%. According t...

QCOSTARICA – The government signed a decree on Wednesday on the parallel importation of medicines into the country. The decree will allow the importation of medicines from anywhere, as long as they are included in the sanitary registry. The Min...

Whether you are a keen gamer yourself or you know one in your life, the chances are that you will have seen just how important these games can be to people. Escaping everyday life is a must – especially given the fact that the COVID-19 pandemic is...

QCOLOMBIA – Gustavo Petro, a former member of Colombia’s M-19 guerrilla group, was inaugurated Colombia’s first leftist president on Sunday at a ceremony in Bogota. Some 100,000 people, including Spanish King Felipe VI and at least nine preside...