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Monthly Archives: February, 2006

Runoff Could Challenge Parties’ Finances

In 2002, Costa Rica’s electoral system was shaken at its roots. For the first time since 1949,Costa Ricans did not choose a President. None...

Arias Gets Most Funds, Guevara Cries Foul Play

•Seventy-three percent of the political donations given between April 2002 and November 2005 to the top five parties leading in the polls were given...

Costa Rica’s Presidential Candidates:Who They Are and What They Want to Do

Voter apathy may keep voters away from the polls, but lack of choices should not. Fourteen candidates are contending in Sunday’s presidential election, hoping...

Rainbow of Flags Helps Sort Out the Politics

With only two more sleeps until the election, people are showing support for the country’s many political parties with a rainbow of party flags. Third-ranked...

Elections Here are a Model for Democracy

The last time the results of an election in Costa Rica were seriously challenged, it provoked a civil war, inspired the abolishment of the...

Festival Says “No” to Arias, CAFTA, Oil Drilling

While a human river of green and white flooded Paseo Colón, in west San José, Sunday to say “yes” to leading presidential candidate Oscar...

Political Apathy Creates Poll Worker Scare

Political apathy isn’t just making for less exciting rallies and fewer party flags on rooftops, this week it also threatened the functioning of polling...

Blind Voters Demand Right to Vote in Private

Of the swarms of voters who head to the polls on Sunday, at least five will be making history in more ways than one....

How the Democratic Process Works

Sunday 2.5 million native-born and naturalized Costa Ricans 18 years or older will have the opportunity to draw Xs in little boxes and change...

Controversy Erupts Over New RACSA Manager

Lawyer Róger Carvajal, husband of Vice-President Lineth Saborío, was handed a prestigious new job last week and with it, a storm of controversy surrounding...

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