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MAG and Cen-Cinai Workers Agree To Return To Work

4 October 2018

Union representatives of the workers of the Ministerio de Agricultura y Ganadería (MAG) and the Dirección de CEN-CINAI del Ministerio de Salud, agreed to...

Politics

Tax Reform bill will be voted on in first debate on October 15

3 October 2018

Legislators are expected to vote, in first debate, the Plan Fiscal (Tax Reform) on October 15, after Carolina Hidalgo, president of the Legislative Assembly,...

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Vargas Activates His “Pension Chute”

2 October 2018

In the caricature by Crhoy.com, we see Albino Vargas, the leader of one of the most powerful public sector unions, the Asociación Nacional de Empleados...

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Minister of Education: striking teachers can return to work without fear of being fired

1 October 2018

"Nobody is going to lose the job for returning", insists time and again the Minister of Public Education (MEP), Edgar Mora, when he is...

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Time For Plan B. Is There A Plan B?

1 October 2018

It is necessary now to start to implement a plan B, as the national strike continues into day 22, now that the union membership...

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Taxi Drivers Join Protests In To Complicate Traffic in San Jose

25 September 2018

Staying firm on their goal of ridding the country of Uber, formal taxi drivers took to the streets of San Jose this Tuesday morning,...

Nicaragua

At least one killed on Sunday in Nicaragua as protest tensions flare up again

24 September 2018

Police and supporters of Nicaraguan President Daniel Ortega clashed in Managua on Sunday with demonstrators calling for the release of people imprisoned during recent...

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Day 12: No White Smoke!

21 September 2018

Costa Rica, caught in the biggest strike in almost two decades. On this 12th day of the national strike, the public sector unions continue...

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Government: End The Blockades. Unions: Withdraw The Tax Bill

19 September 2018

With the mediation of the Catholic Church, the government and labor unions had their first 'approach' this Wednesday afternoon, to lay the foundations to...

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Legislator: Costa Rica can go “to shit” because of gossip about the ‘plan fiscal’

19 September 2018

On Tuesday afternoon, in a heated intervention in the Legislative Assembly, the legislator for the Partido Liberación Nacional (PLN) - National Liberation Party -...

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