Costa Rica News
Tue, 30 Aug 2022 14:00:29 +0000Ligia Madrigal will try to become the first Costa Rican to reach the top of Mount Everest
QCOSTARICA – Athlete Ligia Madrigal hopes to become the first Costa Rican woman to reach, next May, the highest mountain in the world. Ligia Madrigal is a graphic designer by profession and from a very young age she has been practicing differen...
Tue, 30 Aug 2022 13:28:53 +0000Young woman and friends assaulted in Santa Ana wind farm
QCOSTARICA (La Nacion) Amanda Castro and her friends decided to spend Saturday afternoon at the wind farm (parque eólico) located in Santa Ana, San José. Like many others, she saw it as something normal and to get out of the routine. Once the walk ...
Tue, 30 Aug 2022 06:51:02 +0000Panama’s Border Crisis and U.S. Immigration Policy
Q REPORTS (American Affairs) Every night inside the chain link fence of Panama’s San Vicente Migration Reception Station near the Colombian border, up to a thousand or more migrants emerge from a sea of tents to board a caravan of sixty-seat buses ...
Mon, 29 Aug 2022 22:47:00 +0000Daniel Ortega orders to start with the creation of nuclear facilities in Nicaragua
TODAY NICARAGUA – Daniel Ortega decreed this August 29 to create the Nicaraguan Commission for the Development of Atomic Energy for Peaceful Purposes. In decree 16-2022 published in the Gaceta, Nicaragua’s official gazette, the regime took the fi...
Mon, 29 Aug 2022 22:09:06 +0000Venezuela, Colombia Restore Diplomatic Ties After Three-Year Break
Q24N (VOA) Venezuela and Colombia restored full diplomatic relations Sunday after a three-year break, as a new leftist government in Bogota takes shape. A new Colombian ambassador, Armando Benedetti, arrived in Caracas and said on Twitter: “Rel...
Mon, 29 Aug 2022 22:04:36 +0000Around 200 bodies of migrants in the morgue of Laredo Texas, reports organization
Q REPORTS – Saturated morgues and funeral homes, unidentified bodies in a state of decomposition, a system overwhelmed by the large number of deaths of migrants in the Rio Grande and the slow process to identify or repatriate them is what the T...
Mon, 29 Aug 2022 13:21:16 +0000Costa Rica’s newest attraction? Mushrooms
QCOSTARICA (Adventure.com) Forget sloths, quetzals and toucans: There’s a new trail through Costa Rica’s diverse ecosystems, and it’s showcasing the country’s precious… mushrooms. Beyond buoying the country’s already-strong ecotourism opp...
Mon, 29 Aug 2022 13:09:22 +0000Franklin Chang’s plasma engine could be in space in 2025
QCOSTARICA – The plasma engine developed by Costa Rican astronaut Franklin Chang could reach space through a test by the year 2025. A series of tests on land have been completed to propose that the plasma technology be ready to be launched on t...
Mon, 29 Aug 2022 11:50:19 +0000“Late” vehicles mayget an RTV appointment until September 19
QCOSTARICA – Owners/drivers of vehicles that did or could not get a vehicular inspection appointment (RTV) with Riteve before is permanent closure on July 15 will be able to obtain their appointment until September 19, announced the Road Safety...
Mon, 29 Aug 2022 11:32:03 +0000Uber now seven years in Costa Rica
QCOSTARICA – With seven years under its belt in Costa Rica, and with no legal status, Uber has been helping people get to where they need to be. For its seventh anniversary in the country, Uber once again calls on the government to generate the...