Q COSTA RICA — Former magistrate and minister, Celso Gamboa, currently detained and facing extradition on allegations of being a drug trafficking kingpin in Central America—based on two complaints from the U.S. Drug Enforcement Administration...

Q COSTA RICA — The Government of Costa Rica responded by filing a complaint with the Public Prosecutor’s Office and introducing a bill that would create a mechanism to stop the entry of products at prices lower than those of local growers...

Q COSTA RICA — On Wednesday, Costa Rica finally entered the United States’ Global Entry program, which expedites the entry of travelers. The announcement was made by Kristi Noem, United States Secretary of Homeland Security, after meeting...

Q COSTARICA — The new COVID-19 variant, commonly referred to as “razor blade throat,” a sublineage of the omicron variant, Nimbus (NB.1.8.1), classified as VUM (variant under monitoring) by the World Health Organization (WHO), is ci...

Q COSTARICA — Costa Rica’s Constitutional Court of Sala IV ordered the release of the migrants deported to our country by the United States and still being held at the Temporary Migrant Care Center (CATEM). “By majority, the appeal is p...

Q COSTARICA — Celso Gamboa, who once served as magistrate of the Sala III of the Supreme Court, as Deputy Attorney General, Minister of Security, Vice Minister of the Presidency, Director of Intelligence and National Security (DIS), and former ...

Q COSTARICA — Users daily report irregular charges on their drinking water bill by the Instituto Costarricense de Acueductos y Alcantarillados (AyA). The cause has not yet been confirmed by the utility, but for now, it is suspected that it coul...

Q COSTARICA — Costa Rica’s judicial police, the Judicial Investigation Agency (OIJ), will investigate the possible presence of an arm of the Daniel Ortega and Rosario Murillo regime that could be operating on Costa Rican soil to commit cr...

On June 9, the Constitutional Court, also known as Sala IV, announced the elimination of a paragraph from the Code of Tax Norms and Procedures (CNPT), which in turn raised several questions regarding the public’s handling of the list of compani...

Q COSTA RICA — The Banco Popular y de Desarrollo Comunal (BP) announced the successful deposit of more than US$5.8 million and ¢52 billion colones to more than 5,500 savers who held amounts exceeding ¢6 million colones, following the closure ...