* 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

* Costa Rican Renovation Party ( Partido Renovación Costariccense ).

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.

According to the SEC, Aon ’ s subsidiaries made improper payments of over $ 3. 6 million to government officials and third party facilitators in Costa Rica, Egypt, Vietnam, Indonesia, the United Arab Emirates, Myanmar and Bangladesh, between 1983 and 2007, in order to obtain and retain insurance contracts.

Executive power is exercised by the president and his cabinet, and the President of Costa Rica is both the head of state and head of government.

However, in fall 2004, three former Costa Rican presidents ( Jose Maria Figueres, Miguel Angel Rodríguez, and Rafael Angel Calderon ) were investigated on corruption charges related to the issuance of government contracts.

After a period of transitional government, São Tomé and Príncipe achieved independence on July 12, 1975, choosing as its first president the MLSTP Secretary General Manuel Pinto da Costa.

The group's main idea was to organize a provisional government from Costa Rica.

On June 16, the formation of a provisional Nicaraguan government in exile, consisting of a five-member Junta of National Reconstruction, was announced and organized in Costa Rica.

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.

However, given the massive influence of the Catholic Church in her government any change in the status quo seems very unlikely La Costa Rica católica se atasca con la fertilización in vitro CIDH Extends Deadline For Approval Of Law For In-Vitro Fertilization In Costa Rica.

In 1871, U. S. railroad entrepreneur Henry Meiggs signed a contract with the government of Costa Rica to build a railroad connecting the capital city of San José to the port of Limón in the Caribbean.

When the Costa Rican government defaulted on its payments in 1882, Keith had to borrow £ 1. 2 million from London banks and from private investors in order to continue the difficult engineering project.

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.

After the overthrow of the government of Gomes da Costa, by General Óscar Fragoso Carmona, Costa was appointed Ambassador to London.

This was a plan intended to promote democracy and peace on the Central American isthmus during a time of great turmoil: leftist guerrillas were fighting against the governments in El Salvador and Guatemala, which were backed by the United States under the auspices of the Cold War ; the Contras, supported by the United States, were fighting an insurgency against the Sandinista government in Nicaragua ; Honduras, only recently wresting political power from its military, was caught in the middle as a base for U. S. military forces ; and on Costa Rica's other border, Panama faced the oppression of Manuel Noriega's military dictatorship.

Costa Rican President, Oscar Arias, presented a seven point agreement, which calls for the return of Zelaya as President – a condition deemed unacceptable to the interim government.

* Instituto Costarricense de Turismo, the government agency responsible for promoting sustainable tourism in Costa Rica

Augusto Rademaker and Márcio Melo, former Integralistas, served as two of the three member junta that briefly ruled Brazil in 1969, during the transition from the second military government ( that of Artur da Costa e Silva ) to the third ( that of Emílio Médici ).

However, records clearly show that the instruction, shipment, and construction of the church were a coordinated effort of Grecia's population, the Catholic Church, the Costa Rican government, and Alejo E. Jiménez Bonnefil ( 1858-1922 ), a Costa Rican coffee producer and exporter who was in charge of commanding and importing the church from the manufacturer Ateliers de la Société de Couvillet in Belgium, in the late 19th Century.

Costa Rica Foreign Minister Fernández Guardia insisted, " We do not understand here what interests can the Washington government have that Costa Rica assumes a resolutely aggressive position against Nicaragua, with the danger of compromising the observation of the ... conventions of December 20, 1907 ....

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.

He worked with the architects Lúcio Costa and Oscar Niemeyer on the landscape design for some of the prominent modernist government buildings in Brazil's capitol Brasília.

Outraged, Vanderbilt dispatched two secret agents to the Costa Rican government with detailed plans on how to deal a death blow to the filibusters.

In spite of the charges, he officially announced his candidacy for the Presidency of Costa Rica in 2010 elections.

On April 13, the Costa Rican newspaper La Nación informed that Finland's attorney general will press charges against three executives from the Finish firm Instrumentarium.

* Costa Rican investigation backs Christic charges.

Weah, on the other hand, was suspended for six matches, and later attempted to apologise to Costa but this was rebuffed by the Portuguese, who considered the charges of racist insults levelled against him to be defamatory and took the Liberian to court ; the incident resulted in Costa being sidelined for three weeks, also having to undergo facial surgery.

In February 1973, with criminal charges against him imminent, Vesco took the corporate jet and fled to Costa Rica along with about $ 200 million worth of IOS's investments, according to SEC allegations.

After charges were brought against Ortega in relation to the strike / lockout, he was granted asylum from the embassy of Costa Rica on March 14, 2003, and left Venezuela on March 27, 2003.