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Fri, 13 Mar 2026 14:39:15 +0000ICE reports cyber espionage and theft of gigabytes of internal email data
Q COSTARICA — Amid the bidding process for the new 5G cellular network, the Instituto Costarricense de Electricidad (ICE)—Costa Rican Electricity Institute—reported on Thursday that it was the victim of cyber espionage. It also confirmed the th...
Fri, 13 Mar 2026 14:28:04 +0000Artificial Intelligence with real biases: New challenges for gender equality in Latin America and the Caribbean
Q24N (LatinAmerica21) Increasingly, in Latin America and the Caribbean (LAC), artificial intelligence (AI) is being used in everyday decision-making processes that affect millions of people: scholarship selection, social subsidies, alerts from social...
Fri, 13 Mar 2026 13:16:13 +0000Celso Gamboa will face a prison sentence of not more than 50 years in the U.S.
Q COSTARICA — One of the conditions Costa Rica demanded from the United States was that, if found guilty, former magistrate Celso Gamboa would not face a prison sentence longer than the one faced in Costa Rica: that is, not exceeding 50 years, rega...
Wed, 11 Mar 2026 14:10:33 +0000Costa Rica: Is the Third Republic Being Born?
Q COSTA RICA — The first speech of Costa Rica’s president-elect, Laura Fernández, was telling: it revealed both the central purpose of her continuity project and her own perception of the difficulties in fully implementing it. Her address ha...
Wed, 11 Mar 2026 13:57:50 +0000The Time for Just Transitions
Q24N (LatinAmerica21) — Latin America and the Caribbean is a region shaped by multiple transitions. While the term has traditionally been used to refer to transitions toward democracy, today the notion extends far beyond the political sphere. We sp...