Sources: TicoTimes
Voters in Costa Rica head to the polls to vote in the second round of the presidential election. 2022-04-3
Costa Rican president Carlos Alvarado Quesada tests positive for COVID-19. 2022-02-10
Costa Rica becomes the first Central American country to legalize same-sex marriage. 2020-05-26
Four U.S. tourists are killed in Costa Rica after a rafting accident on a swollen river. 2018-10-20
Nicaragua deploys its military to help close its southern border in a dispute with Costa Rica over the passage of Cuban migrants on their way to the United States. Nicaragua’s government said Costa Rica’s decision to grant seven-day transit visas to 1,200 Cuban migrants who entered the country through Panama, “violated national sovereignty”. Nicaraguan troops and riot police fired tear gas at people attempting to enter in what Costa Rica called a "humanitarian crisis". 2015-11-16
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
A 7.6-magnitude earthquake 87 miles west of the Costa Rican capital of San José triggers a tsunami alert for the coastlines of Costa Rica, Panama and Nicaragua. 2012-09-5
The Costa Rican embassy's trade attache in Caracas, Venezuela is kidnapped. 2012-04-10
The Organization of American States urges Nicaragua and Costa Rica to withdraw their security forces from an island in the San Juan river. Google is blamed for the dispute and revises its maps. 2010-11-14
At least sixteen people are dead and fifteen missing following mudslides in Costa Rica caused by heavy rains. 2010-11-4