Costa Rica democracy

Costa Rica on Monday is celebrating the 72nd anniversary of the abolition of its army.

Costa Rica elects on Sunday its next president among 25 candidates, an unprecedented number in one of the most solid democracies in Latin America...

The museum occupies the house in which Figueres — remembered as Don Pepe — lived on a farm where he developed many of the ideas that he would put into practice.

Costa Rica on Monday is celebrating the 72nd anniversary of the abolition of its army.

A video shot at Costa Rica's Parque de la Democracia in San José has gone viral.

Hundreds of children and their families visited Parque Central in San José to watch the arrival of the independence torch on Monday. The torch, which has been traveling through Central America, made its way to the colonial capital of Cartago, east of San José, on Monday, a day before Costa Rica celebrates 194 years of independence.

An investigation by The Economist Intelligence Unit (EIU) concluded that in Latin America, only Uruguay and Costa Rica ranked in the region’s "full democracies" category, described as when countries respect civil liberties and representative governance.