Civil Guard (Spanish: Guardia Civil) of Costa Rica was a gendarmerie type force responsible for both limited national defense and internal security missions...

The Costa Rican Civil War took place from 12 March to 24 April 1948 (44 days). The conflict began after the Legislative Assembly of Costa Rica, dominated...

President José Figueres Ferrer of Costa Rica abolished the military of Costa Rica after achieving victory in the Costa Rican Civil War that year. In a ceremony...

The Civil Guard (Spanish: Guardia Civil; [ˈɡwaɾðja θiˈβil]) is the oldest law enforcement agency in Spain and is one of two national police forces. As...

Argentinian police force Guardia Civil, the Spanish gendarmerie Costa Rican Civil Guard, a former gendarmerie Civil Guard (Peru), a gendarmery Guardia de...

is required to be president or vice president of the Republic: To be Costa Rican by birth and a citizen in exercise; To have secular status; To be older...

inauguration of the Liberal State. It also enacted the Costa Rican Constitution of 1871, the longest in Costa Rican history as it remained in force until 1948. The...

Costa Rican police. In fiscal year 1990, DOD supplied $431,000 in military equipment and $232,000 in military training to the Costa Rican Civil Guard...

formation of a successor force did not begin until 1984. The Cape Verde Coast Guard received its first aircraft in November 1992; its actual date of formation...

are of full or partial Puerto Rican descent. The government of Puerto Rico has been issuing "Certificates of Puerto Rican Citizenship" to anyone born in...

is the U.S. Army at Ft Buchanan, the Puerto Rican Army and Air National Guards, and the U.S. Coast Guard. Protests over the noise of bombing practice...

The Puerto Rican Nationalist Party insurgency was a series of coordinated insurrections for the secession of Puerto Rico led by the president of the Puerto...

Huhn reports that, "In a public opinion poll in 2011, 45 percent of Costa Rican respondents said that crime and insecurity were the country’s biggest...

Coast Guard Service, National Police School, Reserve of the Public Force and the Air Surveillance Service, itself a successor of the Costa Rican Air Force...

Louis. During the mid-19th century, Puerto Ricans residing in the United States fought in the American Civil War. In the 1800s, the quest for Latin American...

"Spanish/Hispanic/Latino": Mexican American, (Stateside) Puerto Rican, Cuban American, Dominican American, Costa Rican American, Guatemalan American, Honduran American...

Coast Guard Georgian Coast Guard – two ships via EDA in September 2016 Pakistan Maritime Security Agency – two ships via EDA in 2016 Costa Rican Coast...

of the flag of Puerto Rico has been a symbol of Puerto Rican independence, resistance, and civil disobedience. The origin of the flag traces back to the...

"second front" on Nicaragua's Atlantic coast and Costa Rican border. [citation needed] With the civil war opening up cracks in the national revolutionary...

where he was a member of Fi Sigma Alfa Hispanic fraternity. He married Costa Rican Isabel Urcuyo on 9 June 1947, and they had seven children together. Following...

Puerto Rico (Spanish: Partido Nacionalista de Puerto Rico, PNPR) is a Puerto Rican political party founded on September 17, 1922, in San Juan, Puerto Rico...

imposed on Costa Rican trade in goods, except by mutual agreement. A dispute emerged in 1998 when Nicaragua forbade the transit of Costa Rican policemen...

1946–1949 Paraguayan Civil War, 1947 Malagasy Uprising, 1947–1949 Civil War in Mandatory Palestine, 1947–1948 Costa Rican civil war, 1948 Yeosu–Suncheon...

Puerto Ricans in the continental United States and Hawaii, including people born in the United States proper of Puerto Rican descent and Puerto Ricans who...

transferred to the Coast Guard Yard in Baltimore, Maryland for disposal. On October 13, 2017, Roanoke Island was transferred to Costa Rica. After refitting...

captured from the Chinese Nationalist Army during the Chinese Civil War.  Chile  Colombia  Costa Rica  Czechoslovakia  Dominican Republic  Dutch East Indies...

role in Puerto Rican society by contributing to the establishment of the University of Puerto Rico, women's suffrage, women's rights, civil rights, and to...

physical and psychological abuse. Many WWASP programs were shut down by the Costa Rican, Jamaican, and Mexican governments after investigations into allegations...

brought their wives, while others married Puerto Rican women, and today there are many Puerto Rican families with Portuguese last names. The smallest...

José Adrián Bonilla Bonilla (born April 28, 1978, in Paraíso, Costa Rica) is a Costa Rican former professional road bicycle racer. He competed at the 2000...