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Tue, 25 Aug 2026 14:55:31 +0000CARICATURE: A ¢9.5 billion budget cut helps organized crime and leaves the OIJ without money for major operations
Q COSTA RICA — The caricature published today by CRHoy.com perfectly captures how our former President and current Minister of Finance and Chief of Staff, Rodrigo Chaves, operates. Rodrigo Chaves played it safe with the judicial budget while in the...
Tue, 25 Aug 2026 14:44:32 +0000
IKEA will soon open its doors in Costa Rica, but don’t count on seeing those iconic giant stores
Q COSTA RICA — IKEA hasn’t started operations in Costa Rica yet, despite some surprise on social media after the company announced its first three planned locations in Costa Rica. But don’t count on seeing those iconic giant stores. The fir...
Tue, 25 Aug 2026 10:41:51 +0000
Signs of An Unhappy Expat In Costa Rica
RICO’s Q — This is a post from the Costa Rica Pura Vida Lifestyle Facebook page about Americans living in Costa Rica, titled “How to Spot an Expat Who’s Not Happy Being Here.” “You can usually spot them. They’re the expa...
Mon, 24 Aug 2026 11:56:05 +0000
5.3 Earthquake woke up the country
Q COSTA RICA — A magnitude 5.3 earthquake struck at 1:37 a.m. this Monday, August 24, according to a preliminary report from the Red Sismológica Nacional (RSN) — National Seismological Network. Two minutes later, at 1:39 a.m., the second tremor ...
Sat, 22 Aug 2026 09:41:05 +0000
The internet no longer writes itself: artificial intelligence is behind 1 in 3 new texts
Q TECH — We still read the internet with an assumption inherited from another era: that behind every page there is a person who wrote it. That assumption has just been refuted by a measurement. The Pew Research Center, the leading research center f...