The Ministry of Foreign Affairs of Spain updated its website with several safety recommendations for citizens traveling to Costa Rica, this after the murder of a Spanish tourist August 4th in Tortuguero, Pococí, Limón. “It is recommended to travel with precaution. Since there have been some violent attacks against women tourists, it is recommended to take self-protection measures and avoid tran...

Costa Rican athlete Andrea Vargas classified this Friday to the 100-meter hurdles final of the North American, Central American and Caribbean Athletic Association NACAC Track & Field Championship that is being celebrated in Toronto, Canada. Vargas finished second in the semifinal competition stopping the clock at 12:94, only behind USA’s Kendra Harrison who finished at 12:66. Harrison is the ...

It’s not much to brag on, but Ohio Republican congressional candidate Troy Balderson eked out a ‘slim pickens’ victory in Tuesday’s special election, but it’s not over ‘til it’s over. Election officials report Balderson received 50.2-percent of the vote while challenger Danny O’Conner (D) recorded 49.3-percent for a point spread of 1,754 votes favoring Balderson. According to the Ohio Secretary...

María Nazareth Mata Castillo, Valeria Saborío Barquero, Diego Hernández Montero, Maxwell Jornae Pita Nelson, Josué Ortega Ramírez and Antony Ramírez Montero, became the second generation of Costa Rican students in the public education system to earn scholarships to study in community colleges in the United States, this thanks to the progam “Scholarships for Specialized Technicians Dr. Ana Sittenfe...

The number of full-time employed persons in the United States of America has hit an all-time high of 155,965,000 workers, according to TradingEconomics.com. Now folks this figure is not small potatoes. This means that 48-percent of the USA’s population of 325.7-million (2017) is working productively. The month of July recorded a low unemployment rate of 3.9-percent. This new economic future in ...

The long-waited trial of Paul Manafort – President Trump’s former short-lived campaign manager – is underway in Alexandria, Va. This is the first court trial to come from FBI Special Counsel Robert Mueller’s Russia/Trump collusion investigation. The trial is expected to last for about three weeks. A conviction of Manafort would give Mueller’s probe credibility and give the anti-Trump Democrats ...

The evening of this Wednesday, August 1st, the Costa Rican Public Police Force intercepted three Canadian men with a load of methamphetamine pills. Officers running routine operations in Ciudad Colon, Mora, San Jose, intercepted a vehicle they had received reports on indicating that the men had 'suspicious' behavior. According to the Minister of Security, Michael Soto, the men appeared nervous...

Ex-Trump lawyer Michael Cohen’s legal career is over. Who the heck would hire this guy now to do any legal work for anybody anywhere for any reason? This self-inflicted high profile turn coat has hit the neon lights of passing obscurity. The late Pop artist Andy Warhol proclaimed everyone gets their 15 minutes of fame. Cohen’s got his time alright and it ain’t pretty. Because Cohen’s legal care...

Anyone who thinks they can predict the outcome of the upcoming mid-term elections in the United States of America is blowing smoke rings over a crystal ball while consulting privately with their Ouija Board as a secret basis of inside information from credible sources. Right now a Ouija Board is more believable than mainstream media -- especially unhinged CNN, NBC, MSNBC and ABC. CBS has been d...

U.S. Secretary of State Michael R. Pompeo presented the Trafficking in Persons Report 2018, which gives information on which countries are making improvements in tackling human trafficking, Costa Rica is still placed in Tier 2, “Countries whose governments do not fully comply with the Trafficking Victims Protection Act's (TVPA) minimum standards but are making significant efforts to bring themselv...

The United States strongly condemns the ongoing violence in Nicaragua and human rights abuses committed by the Ortega regime in response to protests. After years of fraudulent elections and the regime’s manipulation of Nicaraguan law – as well as the suppression of civil society, opposition parties, and independent media – the Nicaraguan people have taken to the streets to call for democratic refo...

This is the perfect time to book your flight from Toronto to Costa Rica for the months of September, October or November 2018, Avianca Airlines has rates starting as cheap as $379.00 CAD ($290 USD) round trip. The flights only have one short stop in El Salvador, each way. If you search in Google Flights it will give you the compared prices for a round trip from Toronto to San Jose by just se...

Let’s review last week’s political happenings starting with former Vice President Joe Biden’s speech Friday in Phoenix that was downright scary. His voice echoed with political hate as he spoke before a Latino civil rights group. Here’s what Biden actually said in reference to the Trump administration’s “zero-tolerance” immigration policies at the Mexico-USA border, “Grotesque lies – lies about...

Well … Mr. President there’s nothing like pouring gasoline on your Russia problem when you had no problem, but now you do and it’s a whole new ballgame. Public and political perception of President Donald Trump’s news conference standing alongside Russian President Vladimir Putin in Finland leaves everyone – Republicans, Democrats and Independents – shaking their heads. Lord only knows what Pre...

The United States continues to be the biggest tourism market for Costa Rica, and according to information by the Costa Rica Tourism Board (ICT), in 2017 a total 1,199,214 travelers from the US visited the country and it offers a potential market of 24 million people. Minister of Tourism Maria Amalia Revelo has emphasized on the importance of focusing efforts on continuing to attract more visito...

Establishment Labs Holdings Inc. (NASDAQ: ESTA) commenced trading on the Nasdaq Stock Market yesterday and celebrated a successful first day with an offering size of 3,715,277 stocks at an opening price of $18.00 for a total of $66.8 million. With this initial transaction Establishment Labs intends to invest in a clinical study in the United States, informed daily La Nacion, with the purpose of...

Two political events from last week stand out: One is FBI Special Agent Peter Strzok’s testimony in front of two U.S. House oversight committees and the indictments announced by Deputy U.S. Attorney General Rod Rosenstein against 12 Russian intelligence officers investigated by FBI Special Counsel Robert Mueller. Also, behind the scenes of the current leadership of the Democratic National Commi...

For a period of three weeks from May 16 through June 9, 2018, the US 571st Mobility Support Advisory Squadron conducted their first-ever mission to Costa Rica, a three-week building partnership capacity mission with the air vigilance service, (SVA – Servicio de Vigilancia Aereo). “This was our first mission to Costa Rica and my team executed and established the groundwork to build and strengthe...

Under the slogan, “Together we are a Volcano” (Juntos somos un volcán) thousands of Nicaraguans took to the streets of Managua this Thursday, July 12 to demand the resignation of President Daniel Ortega. The march is the first of three days of scheduled protests against the Nicaraguan government, this Friday protesters call for a national strike and on Saturday a civic caravan. Ortega however, ref...

No sooner did President Donald Trump name federal Appeals Court Judge Brett Kavanaugh his U.S. Supreme Court nominee the liberal far left Democrats really showed their stuff and it was not pretty. These captured images will stay with voters like a bad headache with the mid-term elections only 19 weeks down the road. Leading the Kavanaugh opposition is Senate Minority Leader Sen. Chuck Schumer (...

What is there not to like about potential U.S. Supreme Court nominee Amy Coney Barrett? We are about to find out if President Donald Trump picks Judge Barrett to replace retiring Justice Anthony Kennedy on the high court. President Trump says he will reveal his choice for the Supreme Court vacancy on Monday. No matter who the president picks the subsequent constitutionally required U.S. Senate ...

Photo Credit: US Embassy in Costa Rica The United States embassy in Costa Rica began the celebration of the 242 years of independence the evening of July 3rd with a formal gathering with personnel of the American Embassy and representatives of the Costa Rican government. “The United States was built in the principles of freedom, democracy and liberty and its these founding principles that stre...

The United States citizens celebrate this fourth of July 242 years of independent life, if you are in Costa Rica and you are looking for options on things to do this Independence Day, we offer you some alternatives: Backyard Bar: The Backyard Bar between Jaco and Hermosa in Puntarenas is hosting an "Old Fashioned Backyard Barbecue" starting at 4 p.m. with an open jackpot surf contest and live m...

The morning Monday, July 2, officers of Management Investigation of the Professional Migratory Police arrested a Costa Rican woman during a search in the area of Getsemani, Heredia, as the main suspect of human smuggling ring through the forging of documents. The woman's last name Benavides De la O, forged different documents such as bank statements, municipal permits, social security orders, w...

A group of U.S. citizens living in Costa Rica, gathered in front of the US embassy this Saturday to manifest against Trump’s immigration policies. Chanting “What is democracy? Resisting is Democracy!” and “We are ashamed!” while holding signs with messages like “Liberty for children in the boarder”, “No to families’ separation”, “They are refugees, please help them”, “Stop tearing families apar...

Photo Credit: La Nacion/ Alejandro Gamboa Madrigal. Canadian company Worldwide Charter Group (WWCG) rejected the fraud accusation made by Costa Rican travel agency DestinosTV. Jose Cortes, General Manager of Destinos TV publicly accused Worldwide Charter Group of fraud in a press conference held on June 19, in reference to over 300 Costa Rican travelers that were stranded in the county after...

Air Canada announced the increase in the frequency of flights connecting Montreal, Canada to Liberia, Guanacaste, going from one to three flights a week (Tuesdays, Thursdays and Saturdays) starting December 18, 2018; while flights from Toronto to Liberia will go from four a week to daily as of December 15, 2018, the increase in flights will maintain through April 2019, covering the high season. ...

There is a lot of crazy political stuff on TV news and social media these days. The out-in-far-left-field anti-Trump Occupy Democrats are the looniest of the loony tunes out there. Their hateful ‘red-meat’ rants on social media repeated on TV news demonstrate a continuing and deepening break from reality right in there solidly with the likes of California Democrat U.S. Rep. Maxine Waters, who is p...

There is only one way to end the ongoing USA/Mexico border conflict and that is to close the border for the time being. Round up those 2,000-plus children and reunite them with their parents. Then send all of them -- currently assaulting the USA/Mexico border seeking asylum -- back over the Mexico border and slam the door shut! Say goodbye! Deny all asylum applications and make them reapply at the...

Photo Credit: ShowtimeBoxing Shields got the win with scores of 98-91, 97-92, 97-92 and earned, her second World Title in a very short time as a professional. The native of Michigan holds the World Boxing Council (WBC) and International Boxing Federation (IBF) World Female Super Middleweight Champion (168 lbs.) and today won the IBF and WBA Female Middleweight World Titles (160 lbs). It was ...

The six-year old Costa Rican child that was found Tuesday afternoon abandoned and alone in Luckerville, Arizona near the border, will remain in the custody of the U.S. Department of Health and Human Services, the information was released by the Ministry of Public Affairs in Costa Rica. Mabel Segura, General Consul to Costa Rica in Los Angeles and Carmen Bermudez, Honorary Consul in Arizona, agr...

Costa Rican World Champion Hanna Gabriels is in Detroit ready to face U.S. World Champion Claressa Shields this Friday, June 22. Both fighters  successfully made weight, weighing in at 159.6 lbs just below the 160 lbs limit. The Costa Rican is the current WBO (World Boxing Organization) and WBA (Word Boxing Association) Female World Super Welterweight Champion (154 lbs.); while Shields is a ...

The Consulate of Costa Rica in Los Angeles is handling in coordination with the United States authorities, the case of a Costa Rican minor who was found on Tuesday afternoon at the Arizona desert. "The six year old child, was rescued by migratory agents of the United States in Luckeville, Arizona, just north of the frontier", stated the Ministry of Foreign Affairs in a press release. Accordi...

Photo Credit: La Nacion/ Alejandro Gamboa Madrigal. The dream trip of hundreds of Costa Ricans soon became a nightmare last week when they were informed of the cancellation of their flight by travel agency DestinosTV. Close to 300 Ticos were stranded, at this point, sixty of them have been accommodated in commercial flights and are still waiting to get confirmation on their return flights, ...

Left-wing propaganda, outright lies, misinformation, distortions, misrepresentations, falsehoods – all describe the current mainstream media coverage of the ongoing Mexican border controversy. There has been a recent surge of illegal immigrants attempting to come into United States of America illegally – in between legal border crossings -- using their children as a shield from prosecution -- w...

The long awaited 560-page plus investigative report by U.S. Inspector General Michael Horowitz was released Thursday setting off a firestorm of political commentary from just about every talking head in Washington, DC. One big takeaway from the report is President Donald Trump was 100-percent justified in firing former FBI Director James Comey for his “insubordinate” actions involving the FBI’s...

The Bureau of Consular Affairs of the United States Department of State issued a Level 3 (Reconsider Travel) advisory for Nicaragua due to “crime, civil unrest and limited healthcare availability”. Nicaragua has been facing a serious crisis that began in April 18, when college students took to the streets to protest the revocation of the social security and pension reforms approved unilaterally...

All eyes are on Singapore for the Tuesday summit with President Donald Trump and North Korean dictator Kim Jong Un. But all ears are on Thursday’s planned release of the U.S. Inspector General’s 400-page report detailing his conclusions and recommendations into his office’s findings involving the actions of high-ranking DOJ and FBI officials with the Clinton email scandal and the 2016 presidential...

Former President of Costa Rica, Luis Guillermo Solis and his wife, Mercedes Peñas will be relocating to Florida in August 2018. Solis will be taking on a position as a professor at the Kimberly Green Latin American and Caribbean Center (LACC) of the Florida International University (FIU). Peñas will be working as an investigator in the area of territorial development and prevention of risk at l...

Is it time for President Donald Trump and the U.S. Congress to cut loose the unincorporated USA territory of Puerto Rico? Is it time to say goodbye and let them have their own sovereign island nation independent from the USA? Hurricane season 2018 just started and some 10,000 families in back woods Puerto Rico are still without electrical power despite 10-months of restoration efforts following...