* 1977 – Kurt Bernard, Costa Rican footballer

* 1977 – Douglas Sequeira, Costa Rican footballer

* 1974 – Luis Marín, Costa Rican footballer

However, the indigenous people have influenced modern Costa Rican culture to a relatively small degree, as most of these died from diseases such as smallpox and mistreatment by the Spaniards.

Another important factor behind Costa Rica's poverty was the lack of a significant indigenous population available for forced labor, which meant that most of the Costa Rican settlers had to work on their own land, preventing the establishment of large haciendas.

He intended to expand into Costa Rica and after he entered Costa Rican territory, Costa Rica declared war.

Costa Rican forces followed the filibusters into Rivas, Nicaragua, where in a final battle, William Walker and his forces were finally pushed back.

" With more than 2, 000 dead, the 44-day Costa Rican Civil War resulting from this uprising was the bloodiest event in twentieth-century Costa Rican history ", but the victorious junta drafted a constitution guaranteeing free elections with universal suffrage and the abolition of the military.

* Costa Rican Archaeology

* Costa Rican Pre-Columbian City of Guayabo

It is part of many ecoregions, including Costa Rican seasonal moist forests, Bocas del Toro-San Bastimentos Island-San Blas mangroves, Mosquitia-Nicaraguan Caribbean Coast mangroves, Southern Dry Pacific Coast mangroves, Central American dry forests, and Talamancan montane forests.

Together the protected areas comprise over one-fourth of Costa Rican territory.

Immigrants in Costa Rica represent about 10. 2 % of the Costa Rican population.

: Noun: Costa Rican ( s )

: Adjective: Costa Rican

In particular, an attempt by the Legislative Assembly to approve a law that opened up the electricity and telecommunication markets ( controlled by a monopoly of the Costa Rican Institute of Electricity-ICE ) to market competition, known as the " Combo " law, was met with strong social opposition.

The prohibition was officially recognized as unconstitutional in April 2003, allowing Óscar Arias to run for President a second time in the 2006 Costa Rican presidential elections, which he won with approximately a 1 % margin.

* Costa Rican Renovation Party ( PRC ): 1 seat

The Costa Rican Renovation Party () is a Christian political party in Costa Rica.

* National Liberation Party ( Costa Rica ) ( Partido Liberación Nacional — PLN ).

The Partido Movimiento Libertario (" Libertarian Movement Party or PML ") is a political party based on classical liberalism in Costa Rica.

Several neo-Nazi groups exist in Costa Rica, and the first to be in the spotlight was the Costa Rican National Socialist Party, which is now disbanded.

APRA was originally founded by Víctor Raúl Haya de la Torre in Mexico City on 7 May 1924 with aspirations to becoming a continent-wide party, and it subsequently influenced a number of other Latin American political movements, including Bolivia's Revolutionary Nationalist Movement ( Movimiento Nacionalista Revolucionario, MNR ) and Costa Rica's National Liberation Party ( Partido Liberación Nacional, PLN ).

In 1986 Finn performed with The Rock Party a charity project initiated by The National Campaign Against Drug Abuse ( NCADA ), which included many Australasian musicians such as Reg Mombassa from Mental As Anything, Eddie Rayner, Tim Finn, Nick Seymour and Paul Hester of Crowded House, Geoff Stapleton, Mark Callaghan and Robbie James of GANGgajang, Mary Azzopardi of Rockmelons, Andrew Barnum of The Vitabeats, Lissa Barnum, Michael Barclay, Peter Blakely, Deborah Conway, Jenny Morris, Danny De Costa, Greg Herbert ( The Promise ), Spencer P Jones, Sean Kelly ( Models ), John Kennedy, Paul Kelly, Martin Plaza ( Mental as Anything ), Robert Susz ( Dynamic Hepnotics ) and Rick Swinn ( The Venetians ).

Arias joined the National Liberation Party ( PLN ), Costa Rica's main social democratic party.

* National Liberation Party ( Costa Rica ), Partido Liberación Nacional, a political party of Costa Rica

In the early 1930s, while in Costa Rica, he became at the young age of 22, the leader of that country's Communist Party.

* Communist Party of Costa Rica

* Revolutionary Workers Party ( Costa Rica-Sympathizing Section )

This group was basically formed by two wings: classical liberals ( former members of the Italian Liberal Party, most of them organized in Popular Liberalism, as Alfredo Biondi, Raffaele Costa, Egidio Sterpa and Enrico Nan ); former Socialists, as Renato Brunetta and Paolo Guzzanti ; others like Stefania Prestigiacomo and Simone Baldelli ) and liberatarians, as Antonio Martino ( ex-PLI ), Dario Rivolta, Benedetto Della Vedova ( ex-Radical ) and his Liberal Reformers.

Abel Pacheco de la Espriella ( born 22 December 1933, in San José ) was president of Costa Rica between 2002 and 2006, representing the Social Christian Unity Party ( Partido Unidad Social Cristiana – PUSC ).

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Category: National Liberation Party ( Costa Rica ) politicians

Category: National Liberation Party ( Costa Rica ) politicians

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Category: National Liberation Party ( Costa Rica ) politicians

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