Few cantons will enforce Costa Rica’s dry law during the municipal elections L. Arias - February 5, 2016 Of a total of 81 cantons in Costa Rica, only six will enforce a ban on alcohol sales during ...

Observers hope reforms to municipal Costa Rica elections will help reverse the country's anemic turnout record at the polls on Feb. 7. Tico Times COSTA RICA\'S LEADING ENGLISH LANGUAGE ... (75 percent ...

While turnout for the municipal elections, much like here at home, was relatively low, 31%, when compared to the national elections Costa Rica held in 2022, it is important to reflect on the ...

Three of the four main candidates in Sunday's presidential race tilt toward the right. Among them, front-runner Laura Chinchilla could become the nation's first woman president.

Bob Glass says that only 23.7% of the eligible voters participated in Costa Rica's Sunday municipal elections. Election results here. Global Voices stands out as one of the earliest and strongest ...

According to the election observers from the Organisation of American States (OAS), the election took place without incident. There were 6,212 local politicians up for election. Costa Rica is divided ...

The election was free and fair, as Costa Rica's elections usually are. There were none of the irregularities seen in, say, Honduras' contested November 2017 presidential election.

The presidential hopeful of Costa Rica's ruling party is seen as the frontrunner in Sunday's election, but analysts say campaign gaffes and scandals dogging President Laura Chinchilla's government ...

The younger Figueres was Costa Rica’s president from 1994 to 1998, but has been questioned over a $900,000 consulting fee he received after his presidency from the telecommunication company ...

Costa Rica’s president will be decided in a runoff after none of the record twenty-five candidates managed to secure enough votes to win during the February 6 election.

IACHR ruled Costa Rica, "must recognize and guarantee all the rights that are derived from a family bond between people of the same sex," in January 2018 opinion according to Jurist.