Diario Extra

Diario Extra is generally regarded as left-leaning in its editorial orientation — a tendency expressed, tabloid-style, as much through story selection and headline framing as through opinion pages. In Costa Rica, La Nación (CR) and CRHoy are listed as Centrist — so you can open Diario Extra beside a title of a different orientation and compare the same day's front pages directly.

Read Diario Extra beside another title from Costa Rica and the differences show up fastest in what leads the page. Tabloid front pages compress the day into one dominant image and a short, emphatic headline, so with Diario Extra the editorial choice is mostly in what earns that single slot — and what is pushed off the page entirely. Because Diario Extra is listed as left-leaning, the sharpest contrast is usually a right-leaning title from Costa Rica on the same morning: the facts rarely differ, but which consequence is treated as the story often does.

This is an approximate orientation, not a definitive judgement — and not a rating of quality or accuracy. Read how Crosswire classifies editorial leanings, including the sources behind each label. Directory last reviewed 2026-08-31. Think this label is wrong? Suggest a correction.

Diario Extra is one of 5 outlets tracked in Costa Rica and the only tabloid tracked there. By outlets tracked, Costa Rica ranks eighth of the 35 countries on Crosswire's Americas hub, which lists 165 outlets in all.

Across the Americas, Crosswire tracks 3 of the 23 tabloids in the directory. The nearest counterparts to Diario Extra outside Costa Rica, starting with Mexico and Central America, are Crítica (Panama) and Crónica (Paraguay). Opening one of them beside Diario Extra is the quickest way to see what is a house style and what is a national one.