RICO’s Q — Costa Rican President Laura Fernández said her government will examine El Salvador’s proposal to grant conditional early release to some prisoners linked to criminal gangs, while stopping short of criticizing President Nayib Buk...

Q COSTA RICA — Costa Rica’s economy continues to grow, but at a significantly slower pace than that recorded a year ago. The Monthly Economic Activity Index (IMAE) showed a year-on-year change of 2.2% in August 2026—a slowdown of 3.4 percentage...

Q COSTA RICA — Authorities in Costa Rica are investigating the killing of Marc Walter Fleming, a 74-year-old U.S. citizen who had lived in the coastal community of Playas del Coco, in Guanacaste province. The Organismo de Investigación Judicial (O...

Q Costa Rica — Salvadoran President Nayib Bukele did not attend the opening Wednesday of Costa Rica’s new maximum-security prison, despite being invited to the ceremony and having helped inspire the facility’s design. The Centro de Alta Contenc...

Q COSTA RICA — You send out invitations. Spruce the venue. Spend hours getting everything ready. Then you wait. At some point, the first guests start to arrive. But none of the special guests, the ones that establish that the party is real, never s...