The 2025 draft budget envisions a reduction of more than $45 million in the funds for paying the salaries of teachers hired by the Ministry of Education (MINED), even though the number of positions would remain unchanged. The proposal submitted to the Legislative...
On Wednesday, October 30th, two news stories were among the most read on Costa Rican news portals: a ten-month-old baby is killed by a hitman, and Rodrigo Chaves will receive his neighbor Nayib Bukele “with all honors” despite hesitations from other...
“If my son has to be a martyr for this to end, then he will have to be.” Ivania Cruz (El Salvador, 31 years old) received this response from her mother three years ago when she began defending her brother Ever Stanley Cruz, one of the first political...
The cloudy sky foretold a rainy day. It was early on the morning of Wednesday, October 2, 2024, when the phone rang at the southern delegation of the National Civil Police (PNC) in Chalatenango. Minutes later, a group of officers set off for The Majestic, a hotel...
The Superintendencia del Sistema Financiero (SSF) (Superintendency of the Financial System) reserved all documentation concerning the $35 million embezzlement conducted by the directors of the Cooperativa Santa Victoria (Cosavi) against their savers, an incident made...
Between September 2023 and May 2024, the Office of the President of the Republic bought three contiguous plots in the Residencial Los Sueños Condominium, for $1,443,000, around the private home where President Nayib Bukele lives. This house is located on the road to...
