General elections were held in Costa Rica on 26 July 1953. José Figueres Ferrer of the National Liberation Party won the presidential election, whilst...

General elections were held in Costa Rica on 8 February 1948. Otilio Ulate Blanco of the National Union Party won the presidential election with 55% of...

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...

General elections were held in Costa Rica on 2 February 1958. Mario Echandi Jiménez of the National Union Party won the presidential election, whilst...

After 1869, Costa Rica established a democratic government. After the Costa Rican Civil War in 1948, the government drafted a new constitution, guaranteeing...

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...

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...

nationalized its banking sector, granted women and Afro-Costa Ricans the right to vote, and offered Costa Rican nationality to people of African descent. His son...

Constitution of Costa Rica is the supreme law of Costa Rica. At the end of the 1948 Costa Rican Civil War, José Figueres Ferrer oversaw the Costa Rican Constitutional...

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...

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 over...

13th month paid salary for all Costa Rican workers during Christmas time), the right for women to vote in National Elections and the foundations for the...

by the newly formed National Liberation Party winning the 1953 Costa Rican general election. Calderón's called for abstention. In 1958 the presidential...

Joaquín Gutiérrez Mangel (30 March 1918 – 16 October 2000) was a Costa Rican writer who won multiple awards, and whose children's book Cocorí has been...

on the general themes of the discussion. Chief of the Delegation: Fernando Soto Harrison The Costa Rican delegation did not dance any general themes of...

From 1847 to 1848 Costa Rica had a Vice-President of State, who was popularly elected. From 1848 to 1849 the popularly elected Costa Rican Vice-President...

decades as, in its original writing, prohibited the existence of the Costa Rican Communist Party. Prohibition that was in place from the promulgation...

were two parties with the same name. In 1984 Mora's party took the name Costa Rican People's Party. On April 29, 2012, VP held a constitutive assembly for...

the Puerto Rican National Guard Salvador E. Felices, Major General, U.S. Air Force; first Puerto Rican general in the U.S. Air Force; in 1953, he flew in...

while most of the population is provided by the following entities: The Costa Rican Water and Sanitation Institute (AyA), which is a centralized public institution...

presidents and heads of state of Costa Rica since Central American independence from Spain. From 1824 to 1838 Costa Rica was a state within the Federal...

president-elect and alleged winner of the 1948 Costa Rican general election Otilio Ulate Blanco. The presidential elections of February 8, 1948, were won by the...

of Costa Rica proclaimed its absolute independence from Spain. On the 29th of that month, the city of Cartago, head of the Partido de Costa Rican, also...

the Costa Rican revolution between 1948 and 1949, and then as democratically elected president twice: 1953–1958 and 1970–1974. Several Costa Rican political...

first pioneer to settle in Costa Rica. She was joined by Almalia Ford before April when they, along with four Costa Ricans, held a memorial service for...

life for many Costa Ricans. During the late 1800s, there were tremendous tensions with workers and managers building the railroads in Costa Rica. While...

known as Ángela Acuña de Chacón, (2 October 1888 – 10 October 1983), a Costa Rican lawyer, women's rights pioneer and ambassador, was the first woman to...

resources, as well as providing all necessary public services to the Puerto Rican general public. It is by far the largest branch in the government as well as...

candidate in the 2014 Costa Rican general election and was reelected back to mayor in the following 2016 San José mayoral election although using a local...

(born 1953), musician, member of the Jackson 5 Tito Karnavian (born 1964), Indonesian national police chief Tito Kayak (born 1958), Puerto Rican environmental...