November 1st The Costa Rican Judiciary Police (OIJ) announced the arrest of two men suspected of being responsible of a death threat made to the US ambassador Sharon Day. According to the information provided, this investigation began back in September 7, 2017, when the FBI received an email with threats directed to the US ambassador to Costa Rica. The email was received in an open line meant t...

Just as soon as you’d think the midterm election couldn’t get more controversial – wham – ending birthright citizenship gets thrown on the table with a loud echoing thud. This debate over birthright citizenship goes right to the heart of the immigration problems now being encountered at the southern border of USA and Mexico. In an absolute classic -- President Donald Trump move – he’s taking ai...

Let’s start something big -- Pam Bondi for U.S. Attorney General – to replace the more than likely out going U.S. Attorney General Jeff Sessions. There’s been a lot of speculation about who President Donald Trump might nominate for U.S. Senate confirmation to head the U.S. Department of Justice after Sessions bows out with a resignation or gets fired but his demise will happen shortly after the mi...

A second caravan of Central Americans – mostly Hondurans – is headed for the Mexico/USA border in an apparent staged confrontation to occur just before the 2018 midterm election Nov. 6. Mexico should stop them all at their southern border with Guatemala and keep them from entering Mexico and prevent this purely political display from happening. This new caravan is the second border showdown thi...

Everywhere you look there’s President Donald Trump packing them in at rally after rally, TV news interviews one after another and touring Hurricane Michael damages in Florida with First Lady Melania Trump who also just did a revealing and rare TV interview with ABC news. Why all the visibility? The national midterm election is only three weeks down the road. Early voting is under way in many st...

This Wednesday, October 17, 2018, Canada made history with the “Cannabis Act” which legalizes recreational marijuana, in doing so Canada became the second country in the world, only after Uruguay (2013), to allow the use of cannabis for recreational purposes. In the United States, consumption of recreational marijuana is legal in 8 states, but it is still illegal at a Federal level. The use o...

The Municipal Band Café Tarrazú (Tarrazu Coffee) of Zona de los Santos represented Costa Rica this Sunday, October 14 in the Hispanic Day Parade in New York City. The band is made up of 120 members, most of them from the communities of León Cortés, Dota and Tarrazú, areas known for the high quality of their coffee. The group walked the Fifth Avenue of NYC for two hours playing traditional Costa...

For political junkies the next four weeks will be like riding on an amusement park roller coaster. Across the USA there are way too-many-too-close-to-call elections for governors, senators and representatives, state houses, county offices, local town councils and referendums. It’s all coming up on Nov.6 – the 2018 national midterm election. Undoubtedly -- there will be upsets, surprises and jaw...

Savoir the moment! Reasoning has finally won over undocumented accusations resulting in the right man at the right time to be seated on the U.S. Supreme Court -- federal Judge Brett Kavanaugh. For the past three weeks Washington, DC has boiled over with unnecessary controversy that undoubtedly will affect the outcome of the Nov. 6 national mid-term election – less than 30 days away. Inside and ...

Last Saturday night President Donald Trump held another raucous and packed to the gills political rally in Wheeling, West Virginia. The takeaway from this event is that this president’s popularity has not been the least bit diminished by last week’s ongoing political smear of Trump’s U.S. Supreme Court nominee federal Judge Brett Kavanaugh. President Trump on Friday directed the FBI to conduct ...

US Ambassador to Costa Rica, Sharon Day, celebrated her first year as head of the US Embassy in Costa Rica, Day, highlighted the natural beauties she has encountered in the country as well as the warmth with which she was received in the country.  Day has worked for more than 20 years for the U.S. Republican party at the local, state and national levels, and most recently in leadership posi...

Here’s the bottom line about what just went out over all media -- around the world -- concerning the soap opera trial of U.S. Supreme Court nominee Brett Kavanaugh in the court of public opinion. “Dad -- What’s gang rape?” -- said little 9-year-old Johnny. “Where did you hear that son?” “On TV. On the news. So what is it?” – Johnny asked. Parents everywhere are scrambling for answers o...

How can the Democrats be so stupid? The more real Americans hear this political nonsense coming from the far left the more angry they get. The national mid-term election is in six weeks and some of these liberal swamp rats running for election or reelection will drown in their own self-inflicted misery. “I have never sexually assaulted anyone. I have always treated women with dignity and respec...

The mystery of U.S. Attorney General Jeff Sessions is astonishing. He won’t make it past the New Year. President Donald Trump will fire Sessions right after the mid-term national election on Nov. 6. He might as well resign and get on back to Alabama before the axe falls. That day in March 2017 Sessions -- fell into a deep black hole -- when he recused himself from any oversight involvement in t...

Mainstream media is all in with new bombshell allegations of sexual misconduct against U.S. Supreme Court nominee Brett Kavanaugh that date back 36 years when the nominee was in high school. The allegations are being made by a woman from California who claims Kavanaugh fondled her on a bed during a party at a friend’s home in suburban Maryland when she was 15 and he was 17. Kavanaugh denies the...

Two U.S. citizens, a man and a woman drowned today in a river waterhole known as El Salto de Belen, Nicoya, Guanacaste. According to preliminary information, the Red Cross received the alert at 11:35 a.m. this Wednesday, September 19; the foreigners were staying in a hotel in Samara and decided to visit this place to enjoy the fresh water and the waterfall. A witness stated to local media ...

Only seven weeks left for Mid-Term National Election 2018. Tons of cold hard cash is being handed over to mainstream media by incumbent politicians and all the wannabes for campaign ads on television, print journalism, robo-calls, direct mail and social media. Pollsters are polling every race for U.S. Congress and open governorships. One poll shows this, another shows that. The campaign is at full...

US Secretary of State Michael R. Pompeo sent a message of congratulation for Costa Rica in the celebration of its independence: "On behalf of the Government of the United States, I congratulate the people of Costa Rica on your 197th anniversary of independence on September 15. Cooperation between Costa Rica and the United States is stronger than ever. Our enduring and respectful partnership,...

Having former President Obama coming out of the woodwork giving long, boring speeches along with former presidential candidate Hillary Clinton coming out of the woods to support female candidates is doing nothing good for the Democratic Party. These ‘has beens’ have no message for the future while they claim the current economy is all their doing from years ago. They are so deceived by their hatre...

The Washington three-ring circus was in full swing last week with flames erupting from the U.S. Senate confirmation hearings for federal Judge Brett Kavanaugh, a questionable “Resistance” opinion piece in the New York Times and another new book entitled “Fear” by Bob Woodward of Washington Post - Watergate fame. The Kavanaugh hearings have been turned into a sideshow worthy of the National Enqu...

STATEMENT BY HEATHER NAUERT, SPOKESPERSON The United States condemns the Ortega government’s recent arbitrary detention of six prominent student members of the National Dialogue. These students are the latest example of the thousands of citizens who are peacefully and democratically protesting government actions, only to be harassed, detained, disappeared, or even killed. Five of these students...

The Ministry of Public Security through the Drug Control Police have been conducting investigations with the purpose of protecting the exports systems of the country that are being used for organized crime to send drugs from Costa Rica to European countries such as Belgium, Germany, Netherlands, Spain and England among others as well as the United States. Searches were conducted at two companie...

Why did they do this? Why was Jew hater – the ultimate racist – Nation of Islam leader Louis Farrakhan sitting front and center on stage during the funeral for Queen of Soul Aretha Franklin? Sitting with Farrakhan were the not so Rev. Al Sharpton, long-time-civil-rights-activist Jesse Jackson and low and behold former President Bill Clinton. All four were sitting together and smiling at one ano...

The Interpol in Costa Rica with aid of the Judiciary Investigative Police arrested the afternoon of this Wednesday a dangerous drug dealer that was required by the United States justice. Authorities had been keeping track of the suspect closely for the past two months, they were able to determine that the suspect was making arrangements to settle in the country, apparently building a luxurious...

The Costa Rican child that was found abandoned in Luckerville, Arizona in June this year, is now back with his mother thanks to the assistance of the Ministry of Foreign Affairs in coordination with the Children’s Welfare Agency and other national and international institutions. “Migration authorities of the United States delivered the child to his mother after spending two months in a shelte...

President of Nicaragua, Daniel Ortega denied in an exclusive interview with EFE in Managua that his government has used repressive measures to suppress protests and said he does not feel responsible for the deaths that have resulted from the confrontations on the streets between the civil and the authorities that began back in April this year; Ortega, instead, blames the United States and internat...

Every year many American Citizens choose Costa Rica as their new home, and even though the country is known for being very welcoming, moving to a different country is never easy, this is why the United States Embassy in Costa Rica decided to offer expats some tips on life in Costa Rica and what their role is in helping American citizens in the country. American Citizen Services (ACS) Chief Ben ...

The 2018 Mid-Term Election is less than 10-weeks away. Recent primary election results in Florida show that about 110,000 more Republicans than Democrats turned out statewide to vote in a state where there are more registered Democrats than Republicans. This voter turnout is a big surprise that should shake up the Democrats. Another big surprise was the strength of U.S. Rep. Ron DeSantis’ win o...

Manitoba Premier, Brian Pallister was recently penalized by Costa Rican Treasury and had to pay nearly $8,000 in unpaid taxes for his vacation home in the country. The Premier explained he was never advised or informed that he had he obligation to update the evaluation of his property in Tamarindo, Guanacaste, which falls under the “luxury tax” law in Costa Rica. The “Impuesto Solidario” (S...

How many of you think the Unites States of America has become one giant Jerry Springer Show? Here’s what we are seeing splashed all over the national TV mainstream media news daily and it reads like this: “Porn star, Playboy model, old affairs, the National Enquirer, Omarosa, shady lawyers, plea deals, fake news, hush money, Russian boogeymen, immunity deals, fake polls, racists & fascists und...

US Customs and Border Protection (CBP) seized this past week 45 kilograms of cocaine at the Port of Wilmington, Delaware, hidden in a shipment of Costa Rican pineapple destined to Clifton, NJ, USA. “Part of CBP’s mission is to prevent illicit narcotics from entering the U.S. utilizing all the resources at our disposal – technology, K9s, CBP officers, and our law enforcement partners,” said Case...

Here we go again. Another high-profile murder case – Mollie Tibbetts – comes to the forefront allegedly committed by an illegal alien farm worker from Mexico – who police say has confessed. Through exhaustive police work, Tibbett’s body was found in a central Iowa corn field only about 12-miles from where she disappeared. This 20-year-old vibrant University of Iowa student – loved by everyone w...

Sun Country Airlines announced that it will increase its operation from the Twin Cities of Minneapolis and St. Paul, Minnesota to Liberia, Guanacaste, Costa Rica for the high season, between December 2018 and March 2019. With this increase of 15 flights, the airline will operate a total of 53 flights that will be distributed as follows: 6 in December 2018, 14 in January 2019, 15 in February and...

The Costa Rican Drug Control Police (PCD) in coordination with National Direction of Intelligence and Security (DIS), as well as the US agencies FBI and DEA and the German agency BKA , carried out eight raids the morning of this Wednesday in relation to a drug trafficking operation. As explained by the Minister of Security, Michael Soto, during a press conference carried out at 9 a.m. today, t...

The Municipal Band of Acosta received this past Sunday, August 19 its official accreditation to participate in the California Rose Parade. This will be the only music band in Latin America to participate in the traditional and prestigious event that takes place every January 1st. The act in which the accreditation was awarded took place at the San Ignacio de Acosta church gym, and had the ...

Last week New York Gov. Andrew Cuomo set off a firestorm of controversy when he said this during a bill-signing ceremony in New York City: “We’re not going to make America great again. It was never that great.” With these words from the governor of the great state of New York listeners gasped while others awkwardly laughed and cheered. No sooner did Cuomo udder these words his back peddling beg...

Mainstream media is flipping out over President Donald Trump revoking the security clearance of former Central Intelligence Agency Director John Brennan – one of the president’s harshest critics. Brennan served as CIA director from 2013 to 2017 and was replaced when President Trump took office. Ever since Brennan has been a paid regular CNN commentator and political analyst who never stops his ...

A US tourist identified as Ion Chiaburu drowned today in the area known as Roca Verde in Dominical, Osa, Puntarenas. The man, 77 years-of-age, was a native of Ohio, and apparently entered the country last Saturday along with his son; he was enjoying the day swimming at the beach when he was dragged by a rip current. A helicopter from the hotel they were staying, Punta Gabriela, was able to l...

Another high-level ‘Deep State’ follower has left U.S. government service as anti-Trump FBI Special Agent Peter Strzok was fired Friday afternoon, according to a statement released Monday by Strzok’s attorney Aitan Goelman. The FBI itself has not yet commented on Strzok’s departure after 21 years with the agency. But clearly one of Hillary Clinton’s most important internal protectors has been r...

Students of Rutgers University of New Jersey, USA, are in Costa Rica working on the project “Geoscience Research at the Cordillera Talamanca” (GREAT), in conjunction with technical and geoscientists of the National Seismology Network (RSN) and the University of Costa Rica's National Laboratory of Structural Materials and Models (Lanamme) and using the research facilities of Costa Rican Electricity...