Dormir bien se ha convertido en un reto para miles de costarricenses. Las cifras más recientes de la Caja Costarricense de Seguro Social (CCSS), reflejan que el insomnio dejó de ser un problema aislado para convertirse en un fenómeno que impacta diariamente los servicios de salud del país.

Solo durante 2025, la institución registró un promedio de 157 consultas diarias por insomnio en los servicios de consulta externa, mientras que en los servicios de emergencias se atendieron 5,381 casos, equivalentes a unos 15 pacientes cada día. Los datos forman parte de un análisis presentado por la Universidad Hispanoamericana con base en estadísticas de la CCSS.

El estudio evidencia que, entre 2021 y 2025, la consulta externa acumuló 197,984 atenciones relacionadas con insomnio, un promedio anual que osciló entre 147 y 163 consultas diarias. Del total de casos, el 59 % correspondió a mujeres, mientras que el 41 % restante fue registrado en hombres.

Sin embargo, los especialistas aclaran que estas cifras representan el número de atenciones brindadas y no la cantidad de pacientes, ya que una misma persona pudo acudir varias veces durante el mismo año por este trastorno. Además, los registros incluyen diagnósticos asociados tanto al insomnio orgánico como al no orgánico, este último relacionado frecuentemente con ansiedad, estrés, depresión o malos hábitos de sueño.

De acuerdo con la Organización Mundial de la Salud (OMS), cerca del 40 % de la población mundial duerme mal o presenta algún trastorno del sueño, mientras que diversos estudios indican que uno de cada tres adultos experimentará síntomas de insomnio en algún momento de su vida, lo que convierte este padecimiento en un problema de salud pública.

El doctor Luis Diego Ballestero Murillo, psicólogo clínico y docente de la Escuela de Psicología de la Universidad Hispanoamericana, explicó que el insomnio va mucho más allá de pasar una mala noche.

El especialista señaló que este trastorno se diagnostica cuando una persona presenta dificultad para conciliar el sueño, mantenerse dormida o volver a dormir después de despertarse durante la noche por un periodo de al menos tres meses, situación que termina afectando su desempeño físico, emocional, social o laboral. Entre los síntomas más frecuentes figuran tardar más de media hora en quedarse dormido, despertares constantes durante la madrugada, sueño poco reparador, cansancio durante el día, problemas de concentración, irritabilidad y cambios de humor.

Las consecuencias, advierte el experto, pueden ir mucho más allá del agotamiento.

El insomnio se relaciona con un mayor riesgo de desarrollar enfermedades cardiovasculares, hipertensión arterial, diabetes, trastornos metabólicos, debilitamiento del sistema inmunológico, ansiedad, depresión, estrés crónico e incluso problemas en el manejo de la ira.

Los datos también muestran diferencias según la edad. Mientras en consulta externa la mayor cantidad de atenciones corresponde a personas mayores de 45 años, en los servicios de emergencias el grupo más afectado fue el de adultos jóvenes entre 20 y 44 años, quienes concentraron cerca del 45 % de las consultas registradas durante 2025. Entre las posibles causas aparecen el exceso de videojuegos, el consumo de alcohol y drogas, así como altos niveles de estrés.

No obstante, el problema tampoco excluye a la población infantil.

Durante el periodo analizado, la CCSS contabilizó 6,414 atenciones en consulta externa y 449 en emergencias correspondientes a menores de 15 años. Según el especialista, en estos casos influyen factores como horarios irregulares para dormir, ansiedad por separación de los padres, violencia intrafamiliar, compartir la habitación con otros familiares y, especialmente, el uso excesivo de videojuegos y dispositivos electrónicos durante la noche.

Otro dato que llamó la atención de los investigadores fue el incremento en las hospitalizaciones asociadas al insomnio. Entre 2023 y 2024, los egresos hospitalarios pasaron de 62 a 205, lo que representa un crecimiento del 231 %, siendo las mujeres quienes concentraron el 60 % de estos casos. Para el especialista, este aumento evidencia que el trastorno puede alcanzar niveles de gravedad que requieren atención hospitalaria cuando no es tratado oportunamente.

Frente a este panorama, los expertos insisten en fortalecer la llamada higiene del sueño, un conjunto de hábitos que favorecen un descanso adecuado. Entre las principales recomendaciones destacan mantener un horario fijo para acostarse y levantarse, realizar actividad física durante el día, practicar técnicas de relajación, evitar el uso de teléfonos celulares, computadoras y videojuegos al menos una hora antes de dormir, consumir cenas ligeras y utilizar la cama únicamente para descansar, evitando trabajar, estudiar o ver televisión desde ella. Si los problemas persisten pese a estos cambios, aconsejan buscar atención médica especializada.

Para los especialistas, las casi 200,000 atenciones registradas en apenas cinco años representan una señal de alerta que obliga a reforzar la educación sobre la importancia del sueño como un componente esencial de la salud física y mental. Dormir bien, concluyen, no debe verse como un lujo, sino como una necesidad para prevenir enfermedades y mejorar la calidad de vida de la población.

The Justice Department and FBI have a new communist financier in their crosshairs for alleged financial crimes: James «Fergie» Cox Chambers Jr., the estranged bad-boy heir to the Cox cable empire.

On Friday, Spanish police detained Chambers on the luxury island of Ibiza, in response to an international arrest warrant, according to sources. Chambers is allegedly wanted for money laundering and providing support to Hamas, following years of financing anti-Israel and anti-West organizations and protests. The transnational network he helped fund and support is kicking in to cast him as a victim of the Trump administration’s «fascism,» while critics are cheering the arrest as long overdue.

A spokesman for Spain’s Balearic Islands police branch, which includes Ibiza in its jurisdiction, told Fox News Digital that a U.S. citizen was arrested on charges tied to an international arrest warrant Friday under an international arrest warrant seeking his extradition to the United States. The spokesman did not confirm the identity of the citizen, but sources told Fox News Digital that the individual is Chambers.

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The police spokesman added that the individual is being held at the central jail in Ibiza pending a judicial decision that will be conducted by videoconference. Supporters now plan a «Free Fergie Chambers» protest on Tuesday at 7 p.m. outside the prison in Ibiza, demonstrating against «DEL FASCISMO DE TRUMP,» or the «TRUMP’S FASCISM IN PERSECUTING DEFENDERS OF THE PALESTINIAN PEOPLE.»

A spokesperson for the FBI declined to comment. Chambers and his representatives couldn’t be reached for comment.

A convert to Islam, Chambers represents the fusion of socialist and communist activists with Islamist interests that seek the destruction of the West, free enterprise and the state of Israel and the rise of political Islam, communism and a new Palestinian state.

General view of Centro Penitenciario de Ibiza, in Ibiza, Spain, Tuesday, July 14, 2026.  (Photo for Fox News Digital)

Chambers’ ideological comrades leaked news of the detention to trusted colleagues on far-left media platforms – some of which Chambers funds – and his communist, socialist and Islamist comrades are flooding social media to frame the narrative around the arrest as the Trump administration unfairly targeting Chambers.

The arrest is a significant move by the Trump administration as it targets far-left financiers allegedly engaged in supporting political violence. In this case, as in other investigations, federal authorities are following the money and investigating potential tax and financial crimes.

FBI Co-Deputy Director Chris Raia recently told Fox News Digital that investigators at the FBI’s Joint Mission Center have identified subjects tied to financing violent protest activity and have been building prosecutable cases.

General view of Centro Penitenciario de Ibiza, in Ibiza, Spain, Tuesday, July 14, 2026.  (Photo for Fox News Digital)

Like Neville Roy Singham, the American tech tycoon accused of financing communist and far-left nonprofit organizations from his base in Shanghai, China, Chambers has made a name for himself as a financial backer of anti-Israel and anti-American causes around the world. As reported exclusively at Fox News Digital, the Justice Department has launched a grand jury investigation into Singham for alleged money laundering and other financial improprieties. It is currently prosecuting the Southern Poverty Law Center for alleged money laundering, bank fraud and wire fraud.

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Fergie Chambers walks near a mosque in Tunis, Tunisia, on Feb. 8, 2024. (Chedly Ben Ibrahim/NurPhoto)

Fergie Chambers walks near a mosque in Tunis, Tunisia, on Feb. 8, 2024. (Chedly Ben Ibrahim/NurPhoto)

Fergie Chambers performs the Muslim prayer in Tunis, Tunisia, on Feb. 8, 2024. (Chedly Ben Ibrahim/NurPhoto)

Fergie Chambers smokes a cigarette while posing for photos in Tunis, Tunisia. (Chedly Ben Ibrahim/NurPhoto)

Chambers was born in 1985 in Brooklyn as James Cox Chambers Jr. to his father, James Cox Chambers, and mother, actress Lauren Hamilton. He is the great-grandson of James M. Cox, a former Ohio governor, 1920 Democratic presidential nominee and founder of the media company that became Cox Enterprises. Forbes estimates the Cox family empire is worth about $27 billion.

Chambers is now the estranged heir of Cox Enterprises, walking away from the family company in 2023 with a payout estimated at about $250 million after a falling out with his family over the company’s support for Atlanta’s controversial public safety training center, known by critics as «Cop City.» In April, a grand jury indicted three alleged Antifa-linked protesters accused of throwing firebombs at the general contractor of the Atlanta police training center.

Protestors rush a police line during a demonstration against the so-called «Cop City» training facility in Atlanta, Monday, Nov. 13, 2023. (Mike Stewart/AP Photo)

Chambers openly redirected his fortune into communist collectives, bail and legal underwriting and groups engaged in hard-edged protest and property disruption.

Raised mostly in Brooklyn after his parents divorced, Chambers attended Saint Ann’s School and later enrolled at Bard College but didn’t graduate. He briefly worked for a Cox Enterprises subsidiary before operating gyms in Georgia and later became increasingly involved in left-wing activism following the anti-police protests in Ferguson, Mo., in 2014 and the demonstrations in Standing Rock, S.D., in 2016 against an oil pipeline.

Around 2019, Chambers established the «Berkshire Communists» collective in Alford, Mass., in a wealthy corner of western Massachusetts, where he built a commune, operated the Berkshire People’s Gym and launched a publication called «Combat Liberalism.»

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Police detain Palestine Action activists at the entrance of APCO Worldwide offices in London, where the building is covered in red paint, on Sept. 3, 2024. (Rasid Necati Aslim/Anadolu)

Following the Oct. 7, 2023, Hamas terrorist attacks, Chambers became one of the most prominent financial backers of «Palestine Action,» later renamed «Unity of Fields,» while also funding legal defense efforts for activists involved in anti-Israel demonstrations and direct-action campaigns in the United Kingdom and the U.S.

He praised the Oct. 7 Hamas attacks as a «moment of hope and inspiration,» told Mother Jones that «the most important thing for the prosperity of humanity is the destruction of the US» and said, «I chant death to America every day.»

Local and national reporting place him behind the «Stop Cop City» opposition, bail after occupations and protests against Elbit Systems, a company that provides services to Israel, in Merrimack, N.H., and the U.K., and ongoing legal support for networks in the U.S. and U.K. led by the controversial «Palestine Action.»

Communist tattoos are visible on Fergie Chambers’ hands and fingers while he sits in a cafe in Tunis, Tunisia, on Feb. 8, 2024. (Chedly Ben Ibrahim/NurPhoto)

After Alford, Mass., shut his Berkshire People’s Gym for zoning violations and law-enforcement scrutiny intensified, Chambers relocated to Tunis, in the North African nation of Tunisia.

In early February 2024, Chambers was photographed in his newly adopted city of Tunis in the North African nation of Tunisia, framing his narrative as a pious Muslim convert, with a red-and-white Palestinian kefiyyeh scarf draped over his shoulders, a black Muslim prayer cap on his head and a small beard on his face, a tradition that follows the sunnah, or practice, of Muhammad, the prophet of Islam.

The photo shoot included images of Chambers in Muslim prayer, at one point with his hands on his chest and at another point in «ruku» position, bent forward with his hands on his knees, staring at a point of concentration in front of him. In other shots, he walked by a local mosque, sat behind the wheel of a car with orange and green Muslim prayer beads, called «tazbi,» hanging on the rearview mirror. A pair of decorative boxing gloves with «RUSSIA» across the wrists, positioned on a red-and-white kefiyyeh spread along the dashboard.

Fergie Chambers walks his dogs in Tunis, Tunisia, on Feb. 8, 2024. (Chedly Ben Ibrahim/NurPhoto)

Unconventional for traditional Muslims, who don’t often have dogs as pets because of a fundamentalist interpretation of Islam that bars dogs as pets in the home, Chambers also was photographed smoking a cigarette and walking on the beach with two small dogs who look like bulldogs. He also wore tattoos, including a sickle-and-barbells on his left hand.

By May 2026, his social media posts placed him in Ireland. This month, the self-declared communist vacationed among the wealthy in Ibiza, is now sitting in prison.

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Former Special Counsel Jack Smith’s investigation into President Donald Trump swept up text messages from nearly 50 members of Congress, bypassing a required review process in what one victim alleged is a direct Constitutional violation.

Senate Judiciary Committee Chairman Charles Grassley, R-Iowa, said the situation is more proof Smith’s probe was a «runaway train» of abuses of power, as the elder statesman and Senate Investigations Subcommittee chairman Ron Johnson, R-Wis., jointly released their filings Tuesday evening.

Grassley and Johnson’s findings come amid a full-scale probe of Operation Arctic Frost – the codename for Smith’s endeavor to investigate Trump for alleged corruption and election malfeasance – an operation top Senate Republicans call «worse than Watergate.»

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Forty-four members of Congress had the contents of their text messages obtained and reviewed by the Smith’s team, who was appointed by former President Joe Biden  in a way that bypassed protocol. A «filter team» was tasked with reviewing millions of documents in the case and should have had first crack at determining whether such messages were relevant or potentially violated statute or ethics.

Rep. Elise Stefanik, R-N.Y., one of the lawmakers whose texts were swept up in this way, said Tuesday such texts being reviewed amounted to clear violations of the Constitution’s Speech & Debate Clause – which protects lawmakers from being questioned in «any other place» than the Capitol for legislative acts.

Internal communications have been historically included in that clause in the courts, as technology has advanced.

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Stefanik said in a statement that the new records prove Smith’s team «unlawfully and unconstitutionally accessed my private text messages, along with 43 other Members of Congress, in clear violation of the Constitution.»

She said she long-suspected there had been «unconstitutional spy[ing] on members of Congress.»

The records were provided by the Trump Justice Department to Grassley and Johnson, which the chairmen said indicated Smith’s team had «circumvented its own filter review process.» The process is additionally meant to protect attorney-client privilege, they said in a statement.

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Former Special Counsel Jack Smith says the Pledge of Allegiance before he prepares to testify during a hearing before the House Judiciary Committee in the Rayburn House Office Building on Capitol Hill on January 22, 2026 in Washington, DC. (Al Drago/Getty Images)

The news also complicated some of Smith’s prior depositions under oath, including an excerpt in which he answered «no» to a question from a congressional counsel as to whether records he requested from congresspeople included text messages.

Johnson called the situation a «grotesque example» of Biden-era «weaponization» of the executive branch.

«Jack Smith’s criminal investigation of President Trump was a runaway train that had no brakes,» Grassley added Tuesday.

«Based on the information that’s been produced to me and Senator Johnson, Biden DOJ and FBI investigators apparently ignored their own routine investigative protocols to obtain and review work-related messages from me and dozens of my Republican and Democrat colleagues who were outside the scope of the government’s investigation.»

Grassley added that he hopes Democrats caught up in the otherwise bipartisan text tranche will finally discard their partisanship and recognize the severity of the alleged violations by Smith.

He also indicated he planned to recall Smith before Congress to «hold him accountable.»

Of the 44 members swept up in the text reviews, several were Democrats, including now-Los Angeles Mayor Karen Bass, as well as Rep. Josh Gottheimer, D-N.J., Sen. Cory Booker, D-N.J., and the top Democrat on the House Armed Services Committee – Rep. Adam Smith of Washington.

Grassley, Johnson and Stefanik were also swept up in the situation, along with top figures like Sens. Mike Lee, R-Utah, Josh Hawley, R-Mo., Dan Sullivan, R-Alaska, Rand Paul, R-Ky., former Senate Republican Conference Chairman Lamar Alexander, R-Tenn., and the late Lindsey Graham, R-S.C.

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Former House Intelligence Chairman Devin Nunes, R-Calif., was one of the victims, along with current House Judiciary Committee Chairman Jim Jordan, R-Ohio, as well as House Freedom Caucus member Scott Perry of Pennsylvania, now-EPA Administrator Lee Zeldin of New York, now-Veterans Affairs Secretary Doug Collins of Georgia, and prominent Trump critic Rep. Thomas Massie of Kentucky.

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Several lawmakers sounded off on the news soon after Grassley announced his findings, including Hawley – who called for «everyone involved [to] be prosecuted.»

«Joe Biden’s DOJ not only tapped my phone; I just learned they illegally obtained my texts with members of President Trump’s administration,» the Missourian fumed.

Paul called the allegations a «blatant abuse of power and exactly what our Founders warned about,» while citing Smith’s past denial under oath.

Fox News Digital reached out to a representative for Smith for comment.