Late last week a mushroom cloud exploded over Washington when long-time U.S. Supreme Court Justice Anthony Kennedy went to the White House and submitted his resignation letter in person to President Donald Trump. Kennedy, 81, met privately with the president in the Oval Office to announce his impending retirement from the high court on July 31. President Trump said Friday he would be conduct...

The government of Costa Rica proposed the organization of a joint commemoration of the Central American Independence Bicentennial (Guatemala, Honduras, El Salvador, Nicaragua, Costa Rica). Costa Rica’s initiative presented during the meeting held in the Dominican Republic, seeks to promote a historic celebration from the multiculturalism and diversity of the region. It includes defining the pri...

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...

As informed by local news site, CRHoy.com, the Costa Rican government has plans to open an embassy in Stockholm, Sweden by end of this year or beginning of 2019. Epsy Campell, Vice-President of Costa Rica and Minister of Foreign Affairs, confirmed the information to CRHoy and also talked about the possibility of opening an embassy in Finland, however this will not happen in the near future sin...

Classes were cancelled in the public education system, the services in the public health centers were also affected and some roads were blocked, these were the results of the general strike organized by the labor unions this Monday to stand against the fiscal plan proposed by the Government. The Government, following legal, procedures has requested to the Attorney General of the Republic prese...

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...

In the coming weeks remember the legal term ‘TAINTED.’ It was learned on Tuesday that FBI agent Peter Strzok showed up for work last Friday at the J. Edgar Hoover FBI building in downtown Washington, DC like it was just another day, but later that same day he was escorted out of the building pending disciplinary review involving the hundreds of anti-Trump phone texts he sent to and received from o...

The Minister of Presidency, Rodolfo Piza, asked labor union leaders to reconsider their decision of going on strike this coming Monday, June 25 and asked them to continue the dialogue to reach a resolution regarding their opposition to the fiscal plan. The statements were made by Piza in the third meeting held with labor union leaders and which also included the participation of the Vice-Presid...

The Minister of Foreign Affairs, Epsy Campbell, announced that Eduardo Trejos, Costa Rica’s ambassador to Nicaragua will remain in his position in the Nicaraguan Embassy through July 31st. Trejos was supposed to leave the embassy on July 1st to take on his new position as head of the Security and Intelligence Directorate (DIS). The decision obeys to the current crisis that Nicaragua is goin...

An analysis carried out by the Comptroller General of the Republic (CGR in Spanish), “Challenges for the modernization of the remuneration scheme in the ministries” which was published today, revealed huge differences in the salaries from one Ministry to the other. The analysis was done for the Legislative Assembly, with the purpose of offering technical data and information that will serve as ...

President of Costa Rica, Carlos Alvarado and the Minister of Treasury, Rocio Aguilar, announced today the plan to battle tax evasion, through which they expect to collect taxes by end of this year for an estimated amount of $88 million that have gone uncollected. The information was shared in a press conference held this Wednesday, June 20, at the Presidential House. The plan includes 10 strate...

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...

Labor unions in Costa Rica have announced this Thursday in a press conference a general strike that will take place since the early hours of Monday, June 25, as a means to manifest their opposition to the fiscal plan proposed by the Government. The labor union leaders, Albino Vargas from Patria Justa and ANEP (National Association of Public Workers); Martha Rodriguez from Bloque Unitario Sindi...

The Civic Alliance for Justice and Democracy of Nicaragua called for a national strike this Thursday, June 14, to demand the end of repression and violence which has caused the death of at least 150 civilians. “This is a civic and peaceful strike that covers the entire country and all the economic activities”, explained the Civic Alliance for Justice and Democracy of Nicaragua which gathers bus...

President of Costa Rica, Carlos Alvarado, participated as a speaker at the Inter-American Dialogue, a think tank headquartered in Washington D.C., that intents to "foster democratic governance, prosperity, and social equity in Latin America and the Caribbean". The Dialogue, as it is commonly known, extended the invitation to Alvarado to discuss Costa Rica’s main challenges, its future and its r...

President Carlos Alvarado was received by the Council of the Organization of American States (OAS) during a  meeting today at the headquarters of the institution in Washington, DC. Alvarado centered his speech around the situations currently affecting Nicaragua and Venezuela. "The main achievement of the General Assembly of this Organization was to channel the analysis of the challenges in t...

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...

The vice-president of Costa Rica Marvin Rodriguez, Minister of Presidency Rodolfo Piza and Minister of Work, Steven Nuñez met with representatives of the labor unions, Rerum Novarum Workers Central, Bussco, Anepp and the Central Unit of Workers, to discuss the unions’ position in relation to the fiscal plan and the expense containment measures that have been proposed by the government. The two...

According to information released by the Ministry of Foreign Affairs, the flow of immigrants through the north frontier (Nicaragua) registers a mild increase. “Since three weeks ago, the Ministry of Foreign Affairs maintains an Interinstitutional Coordination Committee to face the possible impact that the crisis in Nicaragua could have in Costa Rica”, informed the Vice-President and Chancellor,...

Labor Unions in Costa Rica have expressed in these past weeks their disagreement and discomfort with the cuts the government has proposed to control the expenses and bring down the fiscal deficit; now, they receive a new blow, the Constitutional Court limited to 12 years the payment of 'cesantía' in the public institutions. 'Cesantia' is a compensation that an employee receives as part of the...

Is there a level of ultra ‘top secret’ security above the President of the United States when it comes to UFOs? Certainly President Donald Trump, after 500 days in office, has been briefed about UFOs from NASA, the CIA and perhaps others, but then again maybe not. This question is intriguing and not stretching reality. Are there secrets ‘from out there’ that demand such secrecy? Maybe so! But why?...

The Costa Rican embassy in Bern, Switzerland, became the first to enter the Carbon Neutrality Country Program of the Ministry of Environment and Energy of Costa Rica; it is also the first embassy in Switzerland to reach this accomplishment. In order to reach carbon neutrality, the embassy had to calculate its emissions, as well as the mitigation and compensation of the same, and complete the v...

The President of Costa Rica, Carlos Alvarado and the Minister of Treasury, Rocio Aguilar, signed, on May 30, an order to reduce the salaries of the general managers of the public banks, as well as the manager of Banco Popular. However, on June 4, the Board of Directors of Banco Popular named Juan Francisco Rodriguez as sub-general manager of the bank for a period of 5 years starting June 5, wit...

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...

This is a good time to share with the readers of the Costa Rica Star News one of the best political websites available – RealClearPolitics.com. This website has it all – conservative, liberal and independent views – all in the same place. For political junkies it’s top dog. It is the gold standard in the political communications industry -- mainstream media uses it, Fox News uses it, Rush Limbaugh...

The First Lady of Costa Rica, Claudia Dobles, held meetings throughout last week with groups in charge of the construction of metropolitan rapid transit systems in other Latin American countries. The purpose of these meetings is to learn from the different experiences in countries such as the cities of Medellin and Bogota in Colombia and in Panama. In the meetings, Dobles, an architect, inqu...

This Sunday, June 3, over 40 thousand inhabitants of Nicoya, Guanacaste are called to vote on the administrative independence for the district of Nosara. The plebiscite which will be overseen by the Supreme Electoral Court (TSE), will decide on whether or not to form the Municipal District Council of Nosara. In other words, Nosara will continue to be part of the Nicoya Municipality but it wi...

“Fiscal Sustainability for the Wellbeing of Costa Rica” is the name of the proposal presented to the Legislative Assembly by the Minister of Treasury Rocio Aguilar this Wednesday. Administrative actions, decrees, law projects and directives are included as part of the proposal that hopes to contain the government’s expenses with the purpose of bringing down the fiscal deficit between 1.6% and 1...

The President of Costa Rica, Carlos Alvarado and the Minister of Treasury, Rocio Aguilar, signed an order today for the reduction of general managers salaries working at the State’s commercial banks, aswell as Banco Popular. He instructed the boards of directors of each of these institutions (Banco Nacional and Banco de Costa Rica) as well as Banco Popular, to adjust the salary of their general...

President of Costa Rica, Carlos Alvarado, the First Lady, Claudia Dobles and other members of the government received the visit of the Male National Soccer Team at the Presidential House this past Monday. Headed by coach Oscar Ramirez, the players and representatives of the Costa Rican Soccer Federation, responded to the invitation of the president: “You represent the feeling of almost 5 mil...

The Minister of Treasury, Rocio Aguilar, explained to the Government Council this Tuesday, the difficult fiscal situation Costa Rica is facing and the actions that will be presented to the Legislative Assembly regarding containment of expenses this Wednesday and Thursday. At the same time, President Carlos Alvarado, signed along with Aguilar an order to “freeze” the salaries of all government o...

Last Friday, President Donald Trump gave the commencement address for the annual graduation ceremonies at the U.S. Naval Academy in Annapolis, Md. Then he did something truly spectacular by staying to personally thank and shake hands with all 1,042 graduates – 783 men and 259 women – as they paraded across the stage at the Navy-Marine Corps Memorial Stadium that was packed with 30,000 onlookers – ...

President of the Republic, Carlos Alvarado, signed a Law 9552 for the creation of the National Police Academy which seeks to bring professionalism to the police force. In the past five years 3,998 new people have joined the police, 78% men and 22% women, 43% of them concluded 9th grade of high school, 51% graduated high school and 6% have university studies. The approval of this law was celebr...

How could anyone in their right mind give support for MS-13 gangsters? These “animals” and “vicious killers” as President Donald Trump refers to them are being arrested, jailed and deported in record numbers. Their unabated criminal activity is the only way these ‘people’ can support themselves because nobody in their right mind would hire them to do anything positive or constructive so they sell ...

Across the pond, Prince Harry and his Hollywood-dream-girl Meghan Markle stole the spotlight off Washington, DC -- giving us a break from you know what – all the lawyers, politicians and investigations. It’s nice to see a young couple obviously in love about to embark on their public life. At 36-years-old Miss Meghan shines bright in the spotlight. Mainstream media began doing live remotes from...

The Ministry of Foreign Affairs in Costa Rica, stated through a press release on Sunday evening, their position regarding the presidential elections that took place in Venezuela that same day. “Costa Rica does not recognize the legitimacy of the electoral process carried out this Sunday, May 20 in the Republic of Venezuela”. Costa Rica considers the election processed lacked transparency sinc...

1,276 Venezuelan citizens are registered to vote in Costa Rica, however, the majority chose not to cast their vote and this was evident in the movement at the Venezuelan embassy in San Pedro were very few made an appearance. Even though they preferred not to vote, members of this community gathered at the Plaza de la Democracia in San Jose to protest against this election process/ “None of us ...

Trying to predict the outcome of the upcoming 2018 mid-term elections is kind of like going over Niagara Falls in barrel hoping to come out on top. All the hundreds of candidates – incumbents and newbies – are floating with the river’s flow inside red, blue and white barrels heading to a roaring encounter complete with free fall, screaming and that inevitable crash certain to come in the late eve...

In the frame of the International Day Against Homophobia, Transphobia and Biphobia, the Executive Branch announced the naming of attorney Luis Eduardo Salazar Muñoz as the Commissioner for Matters Relating the LGBTI population. “One of the biggest challenges of the Bicentennial Government will be to deepen the culture of respect and non-discrimination, as well as the understanding and the cons...