Q COSTARICA — Costa Rica’s La Sele (Selección), the national soccer team, dropped a 3-1 decision to Colombia in an international friendly on Monday, June 1, a result that, while not a qualifier, served as a bitter coda to what has been one o...

Q COSTARICA — Legislators Karen Alfaro of the Partido Liberación Nacional (PLN) emphasized that political violence against women cannot be minimized or normalized. “Because yes, I have experienced it, and I know that participating in politics as...

Q COSTARICA — Thousands of Nicaraguans, Venezuelans, Cubans, and Colombians in Costa Rica will be able to access legal residency and the labor market starting in September, thanks to the new “categoría especial temporal complementaria (speci...

Q COSTARICA — At the second meeting of the Fuerza Élite (Elite Force) team, Costa Rican President Laura Fernández outlined a plan of coordinated actions to combat the rise of organized crime in the country. According to the president, an agreemen...

Q COSTARICA — A vacation photo stop in Costa Rica nearly turned tragic when hikers at a scenic lookout heard what they described as “a very silent hiss” — and then watched a snake strike at them. The bite missed, but commenters said t...