America Costa Rica Due to the recent authority hackings, the government has announced a state of emergency, giving the president the right to hire cyber security experts to try and deal with the situation and the monetary losses
America Costa Rica Local entrepreneur Lynne Corvaglia has founded a company that turns old airline seats into high-end leather products, and does so through teaching women in rural areas leather-working and business skills, to then recruit them and become paid artisans
America Costa Rica The state has issued a decree for the creation of a digital health strategy, aimed at digitizing the country’s health system, such as for the protection of personal data, interoperability of health systems, and the ethical use of AI in health
America Costa Rica The country has eliminated a previously obligatory 10% tax on imported beers, which had been deemed discriminatory towards foreign beers, creating an unequal market that rendered them more costly in comparison to locally-produced beers
America Costa Rica The European Union has formally added the state to its blacklist of non-cooperative countries in tax matters, as it has “failed to comply” with the commitment of reforming the tax system to tax passive offshore income