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Beginning on the night (UTC-6:00) of April 17, 2022, a ransomware attack began against nearly 30 institutions of the government of Costa Rica, including its Ministry of Finance, the Ministry of Science, Innovation, Technology and Telecommunications (MICITT), the National Meteorological Institute, state internet service provider RACSA, the Costa Rican Social Security Fund (Caja Costarricense de ...
Crime in Costa Rica. Costa Rica is a Central American nation that boasts of a noteworthy safety record on crime as compared to its neighbors in the region. [1] It is one of few nations that have abolished their nation's armed forces. Having had a stable past, this country has been successful in developing its economy.
San José ( Spanish: [saŋ xoˈse]; meaning "Saint Joseph") is the capital and largest city of Costa Rica, and the capital of the province of the same name. It is in the center of the country, in the mid-west of the Central Valley, within San José Canton. San José is Costa Rica's seat of national government, focal point of political and ...
SAN JOSE/MEXICO CITY (Reuters) - Long a byword for laidback environmental tourism, Costa Rica is now wrestling with a surge in violence so striking that its government is borrowing a page from ...
SAN JOSE (Reuters) -Costa Rica's President Rodrigo Chaves said on Tuesday that he has ordered officials to declare a state of emergency as the number of migrants passing through the small Central ...
Desamparados is the 3rd canton in the province of San José in Costa Rica. The canton covers an area of 118.26 km 2, [2] and has a population of 206,708, [3] making it the third most populated among the 81 cantons of Costa Rica. The canton's capital city is also called Desamparados . The canton begins in the southern suburbs of the national ...
Date. April 16, 1993 (GMT-6) Victims. 19 Captives. The Supreme Court of Justice Hostage Crisis was a 1993 attack in which five gunmen from a group calling itself the "Death Commando" group took over the Costa Rican Supreme Court in San José on April 26 and held 19 supreme court judges (magistrates) and five administrative employees as hostages.
San José (canton) / 9.9359564; -84.1134162. San José is the first canton in the province of San José in Costa Rica. It includes the national capital city of San José. [2] [3] The canton lies on a fertile plain at the eastern end of the Central Valley (Valle Central). The Virilla River and Torres River form the border on the north, while the ...