The Attorney General of the Costa Rica, Emilia Navas announced on Friday that she will resign and retire in August, after criticism of her inability to prosecute major cases.
Lasso, 65, will inherit a pandemic-battered and debt-laden economy and a political system riven by gridlock when he takes over from the unpopular Lenin Moreno.
The president of Costa Rica, Carlos Alvarado, announced on Wednesday an effort to strengthen governance in response to a scandal over suspicions of breach of private information that caused several resignations in his cabinet.
The Tico Times talks to refugees who fled Nicaragua about their time in the protests, the subsequent persecution and how they fled to Costa Rica. In part two, we talk to former government allies, enemies and previously neutral bystanders about why they joined protests against the government.
Costa Rica’s Plenary Court this week rejected the country’s proposed tax reform bill and asked that four sections of the initiative be corrected. In our second episode of The Tico Times Dispatch Costa Rican journalist and economist David Ching explained the necessity of fiscal reforms.
In this episode of The Tico Times Dispatch, we talk to Costa Rican economist and journalist David Ching about what's in the controversial tax reform bill.
In Latin America and the Caribbean, nearly 40 million people suffer from undernourishment, according to data from the Food and Agriculture Organization of the United Nations.
Ecuador is organizing a meeting with the ministers of Foreign Relations from 13 countries in South and Central America to discuss the exceptionally high number of migrating Venezuelans escaping the economic crisis in their country, the Foreign Ministry said on Tuesday.
