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    General elections were held in Costa Rica on 5 February 2006. In the presidential election, Óscar Arias of the National Liberation Party (Partido Liberación...
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    General elections were held in Costa Rica on 6 February 2022, to elect the president, two vice-presidents, and all 57 deputies of the Legislative Assembly...
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    General elections were held in Costa Rica on 3 February 2002. For the first time in the country's history, no candidate in the presidential election passed...
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    General elections were held in Costa Rica in 2018 to elect both the President and Legislative Assembly. The first round of the presidential election was...
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    General elections were held in Costa Rica on Sunday, 2 February 2014 to elect a new president, two vice presidents, and 57 Legislative Assembly lawmakers...
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    General elections were held in Costa Rica on 7 February 2010. The ruling party before the election, the center-left National Liberation Party, put forward...
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    General elections were held in Costa Rica on 6 February 1994. José María Figueres of the National Liberation Party won the presidential election, whilst...
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    General elections were held in Costa Rica on 2 February 1986. Óscar Arias of the National Liberation Party won the presidential election, whilst his party...
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  • bicentennial of Costa Rican independence. Four private banks, the Banco Anglo–Costarricense, the Banco Comercial de Costa Rica, the Banco de Costa Rica and the...
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    The Costa Rican Civil War took place from 12 March to 24 April 1948. The conflict followed the presidential elections of 8 February 1948, in which opposition...
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    influence of the Costa Rican military. In 1948, José Figueres Ferrer led an armed uprising in the wake of a disputed presidential election between Rafael...
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    General elections were held in Costa Rica on 1 February 1970. Former president José Figueres Ferrer of the National Liberation Party won the presidential...
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    General elections were held in Costa Rica on 6 February 1966. José Joaquín Trejos Fernández of the National Unification Party won the presidential election...
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    General elections were held in Costa Rica on 4 February 1990. Rafael Ángel Calderón Fournier of the Social Christian Unity Party (PUSC) won the presidential...
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    under 3% of the population was of African descent. These are called Afro-Costa Ricans or West Indians and are English-speaking descendants of 19th-century...
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    The 2006 Costa Rica local elections were held on December 3, 2006. In the February 2006 general elections, Costa Rica elected president, vice-presidents...
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    Costa Rican literature has roots in colonization and is marked by European influences. Because Costa Rica is a young country, its literary tradition is...
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  • Costa Rican nationalism is the nationalist vision of the cultural and national identity of Costa Rica. According to scholars such as Tatiana Lobo, Carmen...
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    supporting it, although the election faced criticism due to international, including US, involvement. The Costa Rican general election, 2010 was won by Laura...
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    The history of the Costa Rican legislature is long and starts from even before its formal independence from the Spanish Empire. Costa Rica is one of the...
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    Limón (redirect from Limón, Costa Rica)
    recognized as one of Costa Rica's most culturally and racially diverse cities. It is one of the main communities of Afro-Costa Ricans in the country, mainly...
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    DHL, IBM and Okay Industries. In 2006 Intel's microprocessor facility alone was responsible for 20% of Costa Rican exports and 4.9% of the country's...
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  • Ofelia Taitelbaum (category Costa Rican Jews)
    Taitelbaum was elected to the Legislative Assembly of Costa Rica in the 2006 Costa Rican general election, gaining a seat in San José Province as a member...
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    particularly notorious in the 2006 election with Óscar Arias looking for re-election and PAC’s candidate Ottón Solís. Most Costa Ricans showed mixed feelings...
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    General elections were held in Nicaragua on 5 November 2006. The country's voters went to the polls to elect a new President of the Republic and 90 members...
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    giving the presidency to Ulate and in the first election after the war, the 1953 Costa Rican general election Figueres and his newly formed party the democratic...
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  • Eguiguren) 1948 Costa Rican general election (won by Otilio Ulate Blanco, followed by Costa Rican Civil War) 1957 Guatemalan general election (won by Miguel...
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    couples and the removal of people's sex from all Costa Rican ID cards issued since October 2018. The Costa Rican Government announced that it would apply the...
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  • Free Costa Rica Movement active between the 60s and 90s, no major anti-Semitic controversy was notable until the 2002 Costa Rican general election in which...
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