QCOSTARICA individuals over the age of 60 and those with limited education and training struggle to secure employment in Costa Rica following the pandemic, according to the latest Growth Outlook report from the World Bank. This unequal story is repeated for the rest of Latin American countries in relation to opportunities to return to…
QCOSTARICA Fourteen people died from COVID-19 related causes in the third epidemiological week of 2024, from January 14 to 20; This was stated by the Ministry of Health in its latest epidemiological report. This means that in this period there were almost five times the number of deaths reported in previous weeks, when this…
QCOSTARICA Costa Rica is currently facing a harsh reality: it is losing many of its young people to violent deaths such as homicides, traffic accidents and suicides. This is revealed by statistics from the Organismo de Investigación Judicial (OIJ) - Judicial Investigation Organization, from January 2020 to December 2022, which indicate that the population…
QCOSTARICA “We are not guerrillas, nor do we come to assault anyone. We are people who just crossed the jungle and now retain us here. We are grateful to the spoonful of food they are giving us, but the children are still hungry and many of those who are attending us see us with…
Q24N - Seven months ago he came from the municipality of Tipitapa, Managua, Nicaragua. Today he works as a security guard in San José and every month he sends money to his home country for his 15-year-old son and the grandparents who take care of him. This is the story of Francisco, one of the…