Q COSTARICA — On World Obesity Day, the Colegio de Profesionales en Nutrición de Costa Rica (CPN)—Costa Rican College of Nutrition Professionals—warned that more than 60% of the adult population in Costa Rica is overweight or obese. Among chil...

Q COSTARICA — Transportation, including air travel for tourists, is also being impacted by the armed conflict in the Middle East, in which the United States, Israel, and Iran are actively involved. Just as with goods like oil, tourist traffic is no...

Q COSTARICA — On Wednesday morning, people woke up to shocking scenes: a pickup truck slammed right into the León Cortés monument on the east side of Parque Metropolitano La Sabana. The crash happened around 3:30 a.m. The driver, a 19 year-old ma...

RICO’s Q — In Costa Rica, the guachimanes (watchmen) are informal security guards who hang out on public streets keeping an eye on parked cars, offering unofficial security in exchange for cash. While some, through bad experiences—dishonest...

Q24N (EFE) Nicaragua’s newspaper, La Prensa, is celebrating a century of existence, though it does so with the majority of its staff operating from exile and its headquarters confiscated by the government. As the outlet emphasized, it remains r...