Q COSTA RICA — Starting today, Monday, November, 2, 2026, the Instituto Nacional de Seguros (INS) 2027 derecho de circulación—vehicle registration/circulation tax payment—period begins, with a key change: for the first time, the vehicle regist...

Q COSTA RICA — All travelers flying to the United States or transiting through the country must submit a declaration confirming that they have not been in the Democratic Republic of the Congo within the 21 days before their flight. The requirement,...

Q COSTA RICA — Costa Rican health data point to a serious mental-health burden among older adults. In the first 38 weeks of 2026, authorities recorded 1,656 cases of severe mental disorders in this age group, including 1,218 depression diagnoses an...

Q COSTA RICA — A Costa Rican court has ordered a 22-year-old woman, identified by her surname, Ortiz, to remain in preventive detention (remand) for one year while prosecutors investigate the killing of U.S. businessman Marc Walter Fleming. The ord...

Q COSTA RICA — After the regulatory authority approved a sharp fuel-price increase last Friday, many people are asking when the new prices will take effect. They become effective at midnight on the day they are published in the government’s offic...