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How and Where to Vote For Costa Rican Expats

Sarah Jordan - February 1, 2022

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Voting in Costa Rica and the Upcoming Election

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Costa Rica sets up Voting Booths in 19 Prisons

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Costa Rica goes to the polls to choose municipal leaders

How and Where to Vote For Costa Rican Expats

Sarah Jordan - February 1, 2022

Whether living within Costa Rican’s magnificent country or having settled elsewhere on other ventures, there is one thing you can always count on, a...

Voting in Costa Rica and the Upcoming Election

Sarah Jordan - January 31, 2022

As you travel along the roads of Costa Rica you are quickly reminded of the upcoming election. Whether it be a dirt road through...

Costa Rica sets up Voting Booths in 19 Prisons

The Tico Times - January 21, 2022

Over 8000 prisoners are registered to vote in the upcoming National elections including the choosing of a new President on Sunday February 6. Election...

Costa Rica goes to the polls to choose municipal leaders

The Tico Times - February 2, 2020

Costa Ricans began voting Sunday to elect the authorities that will govern their 82 municipalities over the next four years.

Fabricio Alvarado leaves Restauración Nacional and creates new party

The Tico Times - October 24, 2018

Former presidential candidate Fabricio Alvarado announced his resignation from the Restauración Nacional Party (PRN) and plans to found a new party called “Nueva República” (New Republic), where – he says – they will not accept the corrupt.

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,...

Four presidential candidates in favor of breaking fuel monopoly

L. Arias - July 31, 2017

Aside from their opinions about RECOPE's monopoly, candidates agreed on most of the other economic issues discussed at the debate.

Citizen Action Party nominates presidential candidate for 2018

L. Arias - July 11, 2017

A journalist and political scientist, Carlos Alvarado Quesada said that the struggle to keep his party in Casa Presidencial “has just began.”

Is party allegiance dead in Costa Rica? There’s more to it than meets the eye

The Tico Times - April 12, 2017

"It could be that the moment arrives when having a party will be a transgressive act... but I suspect that we cannot assume that Costa Rica’s parties are extinct dinosaurs."