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Voters in Costa Rica head to the polls to vote in the second round of the presidential election.
2022-04-3

South Korea signs free trade agreements with the Central American countries of Costa Rica, El Salvador, Honduras, Nicaragua, and Panama to eliminate duties on about 95% of traded goods and services.
2018-02-21

Costa Rica is hit by a 6.5 magnitude earthquake at Jacó near the capital San José. No immediate reports of casualties or damage.
2017-11-12

Costa Rica declares a national emergency as Hurricane Otto prepares to make landfall after killing at least three people in Panama.
2016-11-24

The United Nations Committee on the Elimination of Racial Discrimination recommends that Costa Rica remove "Cocorí" from schools because of its perceived racial connotation.
2015-08-28

Recent report from Stratfor indicates that at least 60 people were killed in Tamaulipas state in March, after the Gulf Cartel leaders Miguel "El Gringo" Villarreal and Mario Ramírez Treviño fought for control of the organization.
2013-04-5

The Mexican authorities arrest Mario Cárdenas Guillén, the second-in-command in the Gulf Cartel, leaving Jorge Eduardo Costilla Sánchez as the last standing man in the criminal organization.
2012-09-4

23 bodies—14 of them decapitated and 9 of them hanged from a bridge—are found in the Mexican city of Nuevo Laredo; those killed were reportedly members of the Gulf Cartel who were killed by Los Zetas, a rival cartel.
2012-05-4

At least sixteen people are dead and fifteen missing following mudslides in Costa Rica caused by heavy rains.
2010-11-4

Laura Chinchilla is elected President of Costa Rica, the first woman to take the office, following the 2010 general election.
2010-02-7