Yearly Archives: 2015

(QCOSTARICA BLOGS) On October 13, 2014, I wrote and submitted a blog to this site entitled, “The Costa Rica Budget, Or Will Costa Rica Be The New Greece”. As current matters unfold in Greece, with their likely default on their international debt and their subsequent ouster from the Eurozone,...

(QCOSTARICA) The protest by hundreds of porteadores (informal taxis) on Wednesday impeded an ambulance rushing a seriously injured child to hospital and the indirect cause of the accident resulting in the injury of another and the death of two women. The accident occurred on the Bernardo Soto highway, west of...

(QCOSTARICA) Costa Rica's export sector wants to regain competitiveness through devaluation of the colon, but the Central Bank insists that the exchange rate is at the right level. An article in Nacion.com reports on the pressure put on authorities at the BCCR by exporters, to devalue the local currency which...