By Amanda Roberson , Tico Times Staff
After much controversy over proposals to move Casa Presidencial, President Oscar Arias has decided to relocate the presidential offices from their home in the southeastern San José district of Zapote to the city’s center, according to a statement from the Culture Ministry.
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By the A.M. Costa Rica wire services and local reports
Costa Rica is one of six countries that have refused to accept a 78-year-old Cuban militant who is being kicked out of the United States.
The militant is Luis Posada Carriles. Venezuela’s government has accused Posada Carriles in the 1976 bombing of a Cuban airliner that killed […]
By the A.M. Costa Rica staff
The legislature’s Comisión Permanente de Asuntos Hacendarios voted out a measure that would allow the country to accept $130 million in Japanese foreign aid to fix the Central Valley’s rotting sewerage.
Mario Quirós, a lawmaker, opposed the measure because he said he didn’t think that municipalities have been consulted on it. […]
By the A.M. Costa Rica staff
A new income tax law will not be fast tracked through the legislature. Instead, the law will face the traditional committee hearings and discussion in the full assembly.
That was confirmed Tuesday by Evita Arguedas Maklouf, leader of the Movimiento Libertario, which wanted a full hearing.
She said that she and her […]
