Yearly Archives: 2015

QCOSTARICA - Following a series of consecutive drops in gasoline prices in the past six months, brace yourself for an increase, if approved, in March. The state refinery, the Refinadora Costarricense de Petroleo (RECOPE) on Friday made a request for an increase in gasoline prices: ¢41 colones for a litre...

QCOSTARICA - Hundreds on Sunday took to the streets of San José to protest violence against children, prompted by the brutal deal of a 2 year old, in Los Chiles, earlier this month. President Luis Guillermo Solís, and his wife, Mereces Peías, led the march along Paseo Colon, from the...

COSTA RICA JOURNAL - "It's tough, it behooves us to work with the results of domestic violence: abused children, battered women, femicide and traffic accidents which after all is violence (...) the results of drug trafficking or suicides (...) It's shocking, definitely; we remain sensitive to that," says Jorge...