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Costa Rica’s guilty voters

The Tico Times - May 25, 2018

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President ‘Carlitos’ and Costa Rica’s generational shift

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Goodbye, Fabricio!

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In Costa Rica, friends didn’t fight over politics; those days are gone

Costa Rica’s guilty voters

The Tico Times - May 25, 2018

One Costa Rican voter's shame at betraying her party roots.

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President ‘Carlitos’ and Costa Rica’s generational shift

The Tico Times - May 7, 2018

He's young enough to understand the digital generation, but young enough that maybe he's even lived outside of a condominium.

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Goodbye, Fabricio!

The Tico Times - April 6, 2018

The PRN campaign was crumbling with each passing day, while on the other side things looked more boring, less spectacular, but more balanced.

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In Costa Rica, friends didn’t fight over politics; those days are gone

The Tico Times - March 21, 2018

We’re a more unequal society, grumpier, more distrustful.

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La campaña en que Costa Rica ignoró su realidad

The Tico Times - January 29, 2018

Ya sabemos que nuestro Tribunal Supremo de Elecciones (TSE) llama a un voto racional, inteligente, bien informado y eso está muy bien como pretensión,...

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Costa Rica has earthly problems, but this election season ended over the rainbow

The Tico Times - January 28, 2018

We all know that our Supreme Elections Tribunal (TSE) is calling for a rational, intelligent, well informed vote – and that’s all well and...

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How Juan Diego Castro is turning Costa Rica upside down

The Tico Times - January 12, 2018

The evolution of an unprecedented candidate in 10 paragraphs.

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January’s here and the gloves are off: Costa Rica’s true campaign begins

The Tico Times - January 8, 2018

The electoral “truce” is over, but it wasn’t much of a truce, for two reasons. First, before the mandatory ad-free period began over Christmas,...

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Costa Rica’s elections 2018: a primer

The Tico Times - December 18, 2017

In days of yore, Costa Rican elections were called a “fiesta electoral,” a celebration of democracy where many Costa Ricans were fiercely and visibly...

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A second round, Holy Sunday and the poor electoral menu

The Tico Times - November 29, 2017

Let’s assume it's a fact that Costa Rica will vote for its next president for the first time in our history on Easter Sunday,...

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