🇨🇷 La Nación

About La Nación

La Nación is owned by Grupo Nación S.A., a Costa Rican media conglomerate that also owns other newspapers, magazines, and radio stations. While the company is publicly regulated, Media Bias/Fact Check notes a lack of transparency regarding its specific ownership information, though Carlos González Jiménez serves as chairman.

Media Bias/Fact Check rates La Nación as right-center biased, describing it as Costa Rica's leading conservative paper that editorially favors neoliberal economic positions and sometimes uses loaded language. The outlet has been involved in notable controversies, including a complaint filed by its journalists against President Rodrigo Chaves Robles and the Minister of Health for alleged violations of press freedom, which the Constitutional Chamber of the Supreme Court of Justice of Costa Rica ruled in favor of the journalists. Reporters Without Borders and Freedom House have highlighted a decline in press freedom in Costa Rica, partly due to verbal attacks and intimidation by President Chaves against critical media outlets, including La Nación. A 2022 study reportedly indicated that La Nación was perceived by a significant portion of the Latin American population as having poor image and low trustworthiness due to irregular articles and a perceived totalitarian editorial line.