Costa Rican Health Minister MarÃa Elena López Núñez on Friday afternoon submitted her resignation to President Luis Guillermo SolÃs, citing family and personal reasons.
Amid rumors swarming around Casa Presidencial this week of a major shakeup in President Luis Guillermo SolÃs’ Cabinet, word came Tuesday that Public Security Minister Celso Gamboa would step down effective Tuesday, Feb. 10.
Libertarian Movement Party lawmaker and former presidential hopeful Otto Guevara has presented a bill to abolish Costa Rica's Department of Intelligence and Security, and President Luis Guillermo SolÃs' pick to head the agency has drawn criticism.
Leaders from public teachers' unions in Costa Rica on Tuesday accused the Education Ministry (MEP) of failing to live up to a promise to deliver back pay Monday night, as reported by The Tico Times yesterday. Teachers will continue striking.
Luis Guillermo SolÃs on Thursday asked all his Cabinet members to sign a code of ethics requiring their efforts in public office to be marked by morality, transparency and open access to information for the public and the media.
After coming from behind the pack in a first round of elections, President Luis Guillermo SolÃs ran practically unopposed in an April runoff. From the information gleaned from his detailed platform and public comments, here are a few things we can likely expect (and not) from the SolÃs administration.
President-elect Luis Guillermo SolÃs on Monday announced 19 new members of his administration, short of the full staff he had promised during a previous naming ceremony.