Costa Rica

Preocupados por una creciente sensación de inseguridad, los costarricenses eligieron a Laura Fernández, una candidata del partido gobernante cuyo predecesor lideró un proyecto político que rompe con la tradición democrática del país.

Amidst rising fears of insecurity, Costa Ricans elected Laura Fernández, a continuity candidate whose predecessor presided over a political project that breaks with the country’s democratic traditions.

The abolition of Costa Rica's military 75 years ago has been highly celebrated at home and abroad. Yet the story is more complicated than the myth lets on.

Tras años de afianzamiento neoliberal, una propuesta de ley está a punto de erosionar derechos laborales de larga data en el sector privado, precarizando a la clase trabajadora.

After years of neoliberal entrenchment, a proposed law is poised to erode longstanding labor rights in the private sector, making the working-class more precarious.   

Close to 200,000 Nicaraguans have sought refugee status in Costa Rica since 2018, testing the nation's capacity to receive them.

With second round presidential elections on April 3, the country faces high levels of voter abstention, an increasingly right-wing Congress, and a choice between two candidates ringed by controversy.

En un contexto de creciente descontento del electorado, los comicios de Costa Rica de 2022 probablemente mantendrán una desigualdad cada vez más insostenible.

With a record number of candidates vying for president amid growing voter dissatisfaction, Costa Rica's 2022 elections will likely uphold increasingly untenable inequality.

A wave of the coronavirus hitting Costa Rica's agriculture and construction industries—both heavily reliant on migrant labor—has sparked an uptick in xenophobia against Nicaraguan migrants.

A proposed gold mining project in northern Costa Rica has stirred grassroots opposition in this country, which has long prided itself as a world leader in "green" environmental policies. The Crucitas mine threatens two species facing extinction, and the government's approval of the project has led to a criminal investigation into whether Costa Rica's president knowingly violated local and international environmental laws.

U.S. reporting on the referendum largely simplified the CAFTA question as a matter of geopolitical rivalry between Venezuela and the United States, and it failed to seriously examine whether CAFTA would benefit Costa Rica.