Tag: la cruz

Hundreds of Nicaraguans living in Costa Rica set off in a caravan on Sunday from San Jose en route to La Cruz, Guanacaste, to protest against Nicaraguan president, Daniel Ortega. The exiles demand democracy in Nicaragua, the departure of Ortega from power and the cessation...

This year, due to the crisis in Nicaragua, the Independence Day torch will be delayed about 90 minutes in arriving at the Peñas Blancas border. In previous years, normally the torch arrived at 10:00 am but for this year it is expected that the...

In La Cruz, Guancaste, the Coast Guard continues to supply drinking water to communities affected by tropical storm Nate. In the photos provided on the Ministerio de Seguridad Publica (MSP) Facebook page, officers of the Puerto Mora Coast Guard station in La Cruz, ontinue to...

One dead and a boy missing off one of the two small boats carrying migrants trying to cross from Costa Rica to Nicaragua that capsized Friday night, authorities reported. The Ministerio de Seguridad Pública (MSP) said at least 19 migrants, said to be from Africa...

The Organismo de Investigacion Judicial (OIJ) hypothesize the son-in-law of the massacred couple and their two sons on Friday in Monte Plata de La Cruz, Guanacaste, was the target of the attack. That is the strongest hypotheses judicial investigators are working on, sources close to...

The Fuerza Publica (National Police) reported on Friday night the finding of the bodies of five people in a patio of a farmhouse located in Monte Plata, in La Cruz de Guanacaste, near the Nicaragua border. According to the first reports, the victims were an...

QCOSTARICA by Roberto Acuña Ávalos, Vozdeguanacaste.com - “We have never had tourism, but before people at least passed through. Now they don’t even pass through La Cruz.” Businessman Neftali Mairena describes the situation in their canton in this cold, worrisome and even powerless way. Mairena,...

QCOSTARICA by Roberto Acuña Ávalos (Vozdeguanacaste.com) Neither the Ticos who pass through La Cruz at the end of the year nor the foreigners who come for the canton’s attractiveness manage to generate the cumulative profits from spending by the Cuban community that has been...

(QCOSTARICA) The organization dedicated to the business of international drug trafficking invested millions of dollars in buying land in Liberia, Guanacaste and retail businesses in Cartago; that is how they laundered the profits from the illegal trade. The investigation that culminated in a series of...