Yearly Archives: 2015

QCOSTARICA - Juan Valdez, the Colombian coffeehouse chain, is headed north to Costa Rica with an aggressive plan to open ten stores in the local market. The first is to be located in La Sabana and not City Mall, as was earlier announced. The Colombian company will be going head-to-head...

QCOSTARICA - In the first month of the year the Red Sismológica de Costa Rica (Seismological Network) recorded more than 320 tremors, but only 10 were reported being felt, two less than the monthly average of 12. The strongest tremors were recorded in the Pacific coast,  a subduction between the...

QCOSTARICA - The Costa Rican ambassador to South Korea was fired Friday for a Facebook posting expressing a negative opinion of Procuradora Ana Lorena Brenes as the controversy swirling around the scandal in which she alleged that ex-Deputy Minister of the Presidency Daniel Soley pressured Brenes to step down...