Algeria had also won an Oscar for the movie Z, a political thriller directed by Costa Gavras.

Costa Rica also has several private universities.

Costa Rica also is a member of the Cairns Group which is pursuing global agricultural trade liberalization in the World Trade Organization and helping to maintain the proper economy level in Costa Rica.

157 see also List of airports in Costa Rica

Costa Rica also hosted several rounds of negotiations between the Salvadoran Government and the Farabundo Martí National Liberation Front ( FMLN ), aiding El Salvador's efforts to emerge from civil war and culminating in that country's 1994 free and fair elections.

Costa Rica also participated in the multinational Partnership for Democracy and Development in Central America.

Costa Rica is also a member of the International Criminal Court, without a Bilateral Immunity Agreement of protection for the US-military ( as covered under Article 98 )

Carreras ' father, Benjamin Nunez, also served as the Costa Rican ambassador to Israel.

Holders of a Costa Rican passport also need a visa from Russian authorities.

The first member to withdraw permanently from the League was Costa Rica on 22 January 1925 ; having joined on 16 December 1920, this also makes it the member to have most quickly withdrawn.

The court also found that certain transborder incursions into the territory of Guatemala and Costa Rica, in 1982, 1983 and 1984, were imputable to the Government of Nicaragua.

For example, it is used in French presidential, legislative, and cantonal elections, and also to elect the presidents of Afghanistan, Argentina, Austria, Brazil, Bulgaria, Chile, Colombia, Costa Rica, Croatia, Cyprus, Dominican Republic, Ecuador, Egypt, Finland, France, Ghana, Guatemala, India, Indonesia, Liberia, Peru, Poland, Portugal, Romania, Senegal, Serbia, Slovakia, Slovenia, Timor-Leste, Ukraine, Uruguay, Zimbabwe — see: Table of voting systems by nation.

The also helped attract popular and international support by organizing a group of prominent Nicaraguan professionals, business leaders, and clergymen ( known as " the Twelve "), who called for Somoza's removal and sought to organize a provisional government from Costa Rica.

There were also accusations of subversive activities in Honduras, Costa Rica, and Colombia and in the case of Honduras and Costa Rica outright military operations by Nicaraguan troops.

Taco Bell is also present in the Dominican Republic, Puerto Rico, Guam, Aruba, Costa Rica, Colombia, Ecuador, Panama and on AAFES military bases in Japan, Germany, Iraq, Guatemala, and El Salvador.

Today, it represents the economic center of Sardinia due to its airport, its seaport and also to its closeness to the famous Costa Smeralda tourist area.

From the 16th century through 1821 Central America formed the Captaincy General of Guatemala, sometimes known also as the Kingdom of Guatemala, composed by a part of the state of Chiapas ( nowadays Mexico ), Guatemala, El Salvador, Honduras, Nicaragua, and Costa Rica.

Traditional marimba bands are especially popular in Guatemala where they are the national symbol of culture, but are also strongly established in southern Mexico, Honduras, Nicaragua and Costa Rica, as well as among Afro-Ecuadorians and Afro-Colombians.

Performances were also arranged to showcase Prince's talents, as well as to collaborate with popular and well-established artists and guests including Alicia Keys, The Time, Erykah Badu, Nikka Costa, George Clinton, and Norah Jones.

It is one of the best known fruits of Southeast Asia and is also widely cultivated elsewhere in the tropics including Africa, the Caribbean islands, Costa Rica, Panama, India, Indonesia, the Philippines, and Sri Lanka ; it is also produced in Ecuador where it is known as " achotillo " and on the island of Puerto Rico .. Thailand is the largest producer from Surat Thani Province Thailand.

Costa also occupied an ecclesiastical office.

Costa is also indicative of the difficulty that many Marranos faced upon their arrival in an organized Jewish community.

Kim Yong Nam has made statements affirming the good relationship between the two countries, such as the condolences he gave then-President Jorge Sampaio when Francisco da Costa Gomes died, and the congratulations he extended to President Aníbal Cavaco Silva after he won the Portuguese elections.

While it never achieved Menudo's level of popularity, it gave them a run for their money in Puerto Rico and many Latin American countries, specially Guatemala, Costa Rica, El Salvador, Nicaragua and Panamá.

With Costa Rica still in the midst of a terrible economic recession, Monge opted to exchange sovereignty for economic stability: he gave in to pressure from the United States and accepted American financial assistance in exchange for allowing the CIA to set up small " unofficial " strategic outposts along the northern border.

In May 1945 Duarte Costa gave newspaper interviews accusing Brazil's papal nunciate of Nazi-Fascist spying, and accused Rome of having aided and abetted Hitler.

Marisa couldn't cope with her daughter and gave her up to Asriel, who placed their daughter with a gyptian woman, later found to be Ma Costa.

Shortly afterward, he divorced his wife, gave up his U. S. citizenship to avoid taxes, and bought an island in Costa Rica.

O Acto de Primavera was called the first political film from Portugal by film critic Henrique Costa and gave Oliveira his first world wide recognition as a filmmaker.

In the pre-qualifying round Honduras faced: El Salvador, Guatemala, Panama and Costa Rica in round trip games ; being the match against the ' Guatemala ,' the key game that gave the Hondurans the classification to the final round.

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.

In terms of the 2008 Environmental Performance Index ranking, Costa Rica is 5th in the world, up from the 15th place in 2006.

A considerable number of sedevacantist bishops are said to derive from Bishop Carlos Duarte Costa, who in 1945 set up his own schismatic " Brazilian Catholic Apostolic Church ".

In just 20 years, a teak plantation in Costa Rica can produce up to about 400 m of wood per hectare.

Numerous Turritella gastropod shells washed up on a beach at Playa Grande, Costa Rica

* Portia Da Costa, erotic novelist grew up and currently lives in Ossett.

In early 2005, Tom Dumont released his own solo music project, Invincible Overlord, with friend and collaborator Ted Matson, and backed up Matt Costa on his 2005 tour.

Initially, King Manuel I of Portugal tried a power distribution with three governors in different areas of jurisdiction: a government covering the area and possessions in East Africa, Arabian Peninsula and Persian Gulf, overseeing up Cambay ( Gujarat ); a second one ruling the possessions in India ( Hindustan ) and Ceylon, and a third one from Malacca to the Far East .< ref > O Secretário dos despachos e coisas da Índia pero d ´ Alcáçova Carneiro, p. 65, Maria Cecília Costa Veiga de Albuquerque Ramos, Universidade de Lisboa, 2009 ( In Portuguese ) < http :// repositorio. ul. pt / bitstream / 10451 / 3387 / 1 / ulfl080844_tm. pdf ></ ref > However the post was centered by governor Afonso de Albuquerque ( 1509 – 1515 ), who became plenipotentiary, and remained so.

In the game against Costa Rica, up to then the greatest surprise of the competition, Brazil demolished the opposition by 7-1, with goals scored by Larry ( 3 ), Chinesinho ( 3 ) and Bodinho.

In 1962, while travelling around the Costa Brava Rimbaud and his friend Mick Smee ( also known as " the Pope ") made up a dance called Le Twiddle as a riposte to both the Twist and to a lesser extent Johnny Hallyday's Le Madison.

Byrne has just signed up to appear in the new movie by Oscar-winning director Costa Gavras ; ' Le Capital ' an adaptation of Stéphane Osmont ’ s novel of the same name.

Martinho da Costa Lopes grew up in an era when the Portuguese church in what was then Portuguese Timor cooperated closely with the Portuguese colonial government, but was less strongly linked with the people, of whom only 28 % were Catholic in 1975.

* The Carnation Revolution ( Cravos de Abril, 1976 ) – historical documentary, b / w and color 16 mm, 40 min, by Ricardo Costa, portraying the revolutionary events from 24 April 1974 up 1 May, illustrated by the French cartoonist Siné.

This infusion of money allowed Costa and Kaloogian to step up their efforts.

The Chibchan languages ( also Chíbchan, Chibchano ) make up a language family indigenous to the Isthmo-Colombian area, which extends from eastern Honduras to northern Colombia and includes populations of these countries as well as Nicaragua, Costa Rica, and Panama.

Despite nearly ending up paralysed at the Rally Costa Smeralda early in 1985, he returned to rallying later that year.

In winter, they prefer more open woodland, or similar habitat with a loose growth of trees, such as forest edges, parks, gardens and plantations, ranging from sea level into the hills, e. g. up to 5, 000 ft ( 1, 500 m ) ASL in Costa Rica.

Costa Rica, having disbanded its formal army in 1949, set up a hastily prepared national force that repelled the invasion stopping the Calderón forces in the Hacienda Santa Rosa in northern Guanacaste.

In winter, they dwell mainly in lowlands, but may ascend up to ASL e. g. in Costa Rica.

Shortly thereafter the House passed, by a vote of 217-215, the Dominican Republic Central American Free Trade Agreement ( DR-CAFTA ) to open U. S. exports up, duty free, to the Central American nations of the Dominican Republic, Costa Rica, El Salvador, Guatemala, Honduras, and Nicaragua.

A considerable portion of the Costa Rican population is made up of Nicaraguans.

The tropical gar, Atractosteus tropicus, is a fish found in freshwaters from southern Mexico to Costa Rica, reported to reach lengths of up to 1. 5 m in the wild ( albeit often much smaller in captivity ).

In 2007, a subsidiary of BlueCross BlueShield of South Carolina, Companion Global Healthcare, teamed up with hospitals in Thailand, Singapore, Turkey, Ireland, Costa Rica and India.