Thursday 25 April 2024

San Jose Airport speeds up departures and arrivals of tourists in less than an hour

QCOSTARICA -- A series of recent changes carried out by Costa Rica's immigration service, the Dirección General de Migració, will allow the Juan Santamaría...

Plastic bags are not going away (yet)

QCOSTARICA -- Different commercial and productive sectors in Costa...

Carlos Alvarado: Populism is thriving in Costa Rica

QCOSTARICA -- On Wednesday, former president Carlos Alvarado (2018-2022),...

Average wait time for a medical consultation with a specialist or surgery in Costa RSica is over a year

QCOSTARICA -- To get an appointment with a specialist or undergo surgery, patients must wait more than a year on average, according to data...

Costa Rica is considering legal clampdown on Bitcoin

QCOSTARICA -- Costa Rica Debates Legal Use of Bitcoin. Jan3, a prominent Bitcoin technology firm, stated that the absence of comprehensive legislation governing the...

U.S. announces 6 initiatives for technological development in Costa Rica: from Artificial Intelligence to 5G and 6G

QCOSTARICA -- After several days of meetings on 5G technology, the United States and Costa Rica announced an agreement called “Cooperation in the Digital...

Finca Paraiso

1960s Costa Rica

QCOSTARICA - The first indigenous peoples of Costa Rica...

All the World’s a Stage: Animacon 2024 (Photos)

Animacon 2024 came to the National Convention Center on...

Comic Con Costa Rica 2024 around the corner

QCOSTARICA -- We are going to have a spectacular...

Coffee or Chocolate? Why not both?

QCOSTARICA -San José is a city of surprises. Two of my favorite surprises can be found in one fascinating, historic building in Downtown San...
QCOSTARICA (CTV) When Kema Ward-Hopper and her then-fiance Nicholas Hopper, both from the U.S., decided to get married in Costa Rica, they had no...

Dollar Exchange

¢499.60 BUY

¢505.01 SELL

25 April 2024 - At The Banks - Source: BCCR

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Blogs & Opinion

Covert airstrip uncovered in Puerto Jiménez

RICO's Q - Have you ever thought about how illegal drugs are able to...

Reports

Media outlets in Nicaragua not reporting news regarding Sheynnis Palacios

QCOSTARICA -- According to the Costa Rica based Fundación por la Libertad de Expresión y Democracia (FLED) - Foundation for Freedom of Expression and...

Gioconda Belli: Ortega and Murillo’s Farce at the Hague

Q24N (Confidencial) Doubts assailed me as I sat down...

Latin America

Media outlets in Nicaragua not reporting news regarding Sheynnis Palacios

QCOSTARICA -- According to the Costa Rica based Fundación por la Libertad de Expresión y Democracia (FLED) - Foundation for Freedom of Expression and...

Germany Accuses Nicaragua of “Denying” Israel’s Right to Exist

Q24N (EFE) Germany rejected the Nicaraguan accusation of its...

Panama expects 2.9 million tourists in 2024

Q24N -- Panama expects to receive some 2.9 million...

Medellin bans prostitution in neighborhoods that are popular with tourists

Q24 -  BOGOTA, Colombia (AP) The mayor of Colombia's...

Colombia supports Panama in fighting landfill fire

Q24N (EFE) The Colombian Air Force is working together...

Daniel Ortega mocks the “stateless” by reappearing in public

Q24N (Confidencial) Nicaragua's dictator Daniel Ortega reappeared in public...

Panama’s ex-president holed up in Nicaragua Embassy to avoid being arrested

QCOSTARICA -- A Panamanian court ordered the preventive detention...

Honduras Ex-President Hernandez, Once a US Ally, Faces Drug Trafficking Trial

Q24N (VOA) --  Former Honduras President Juan Orlando Hernandez's...

International Tourism Is Trickling Back to Venezuela

Q24N (Caracas Chronicles) When almost 300 Polish tourists arrived...

Travel

San Jose Airport speeds up departures and arrivals of tourists in less than an hour

QCOSTARICA -- A series of recent changes carried out by Costa Rica's immigration service, the Dirección General de Migració, will allow the Juan Santamaría...

How relocating from the U.S. to Costa Rica’s ‘blue zone’ totally changed this family’s life forever

QCOSTARICA (CTV) When Kema Ward-Hopper and her then-fiance Nicholas...

Deputies rush bill to promote cheap flights between Costa Rica and the Isthmus

QCOSTARICA -- Legislators decided to speed up the discussion...

Q MEDIA

Driving a LandCruiser in Costa Rica

Rio Grande de Orosi. Ruta del Humo, Cartago. Club Land...

The beauty of Christmas in Costa Rica

This beautiful house is located in Buenos Aires de...

Air France pilot records his takeoff from Juan Santamaría (Video)

QCOSTARICA - An Air France airline pilot, Guillaume Laffon,...

Expat Focus

Shortage of available hospital beds back home strands Canadian in Costa Rica

QCOSTARICA  - Suffering a medical emergency, whether it be something from a sickness right to triple bypass surgery, if you don’t have insurance, you...

Supplying books to Costa Rican village is Pura Vida

By Katy Nesbitt, The Observer - On a trip...

Small-Town Costa Rican Living in the City

By Jason Holland (International Living) -  I have a...

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