Q24N (The Guardian) Felix Valdés García was just nine when the revolutionaries came to destroy his family’s trees, a symbol of a sweeping change that would ripple through Cuba for decades. In the late 1960s, as Cuba’s communist regime launched ...

Q COSTARICA — Yesterday, Wednesday, 18 February, the dollar exchange rate reached its lowest value in the Mercado de Monedas Extranjeras (Monex) — Foreign Exchange Market, since 2005, according to the Central Bank. The U.S. dollar surpassed the r...

Q COSTARICA — Costa Rica could once again hold a referendum similar to the one in 2007, when Costa Ricans voted to join the Free Trade Agreement (FTA) with the United States. Laura Fernández, Costa Rica’s president-elect, confirmed in an exc...

RICO’s Q—This week, the US dollar is at a very low point against the Costa Rican Colón, trading around ¢470–¢485. This is a translated and adapted excerpt from economist Oswald Céspedes Torres’s opinion piece, “Estas son las ví...

Q COSTARICA — The therian trend continues to generate reactions worldwide, and Costa Rica is no exception: one Costa Rican business has already taken a proactive measure across all its locations. Perro Café, a pet supply store, announced on its so...