President-elect Luis Guillermo Solís got a VIP tour of his new office from outgoing President Laura Chinchilla as the two leaders met for coffee and walked the halls of the Casa Presidencial in Zapote, in southeastern San José, Tuesday morning.
The Jade Museum reopened yesterday in its new location in the Plaza de la Democracia, a stone’s throw from the National Museum. Originally conceived in 2008 by National Insurance Institute President Guillermo Constenla and Culture Minister María Elena Carballo, the museum’s reopening was marked by great fanfare, including a speech by President Laura Chinchilla.
Obama – who like Solís came to office as an underdog riding on a campaign of hope and promises of political change – will not personally attend, and instead is sending a three-person delegation led by Gina McCarthy, administrator of the U.S. Environmental Protection Agency.
Thousands of teachers filled San José’s Second Avenue Monday, marching from the Parque de la Merced to the Finance Ministry to protest a new government-run payment system that has left them without salaries for months.
In one of her last acts as president, Laura Chinchilla signed a free trade agreement with Colombia on Monday. Her signature brings Costa Rica one step closer to full membership in the Pacific Alliance, a Latin American trade bloc of some of the region’s most important economies.
On Monday, after more than nine months in preventive detention, the seven men suspected of participating in the killing of Costa Rican sea turtle conservationist Jairo Mora last May were formally charged with murder and a host of other offenses.
Doctors of the National Children's Hospital (HNN) called on the population to extreme preventive measures, aimed at reducing transmission of respiratory diseases.
