2025 in Costa Rica

See also: 2025 in Central America

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Events in the year 2025 in Costa Rica .

Incumbents

• President: Rodrigo Chaves Robles
• First Vice President: Stephan Brunner
• Second Vice President: Mary Munive

Art and entertainment

• List of Costa Rican submissions for the Academy Award for Best International Feature Film

Events

February

• 21 February – The United States deports 135 migrants to Costa Rica. ^[1]

March

• 1 March – The Falkland Islands Cricket Team tours the country after 14 years. ^{[2] [3]}
• 31 March – The Poás Volcano erupts and sends ash plumes 1,000 m high. ^[4]

June

• 19 June – Exiled Nicaraguan opposition figure Roberto Samcam is shot dead at his residence in San Jose. ^[5]

July

• 20 July – American actor Malcolm-Jamal Warner dies in a drowning accident in Playa Cocles, Limón Province. ^[6]
• 31 July – Vice president Stephan Brunner and six ministers resign from the cabinet of president Chaves amid efforts by the ruling Social Democratic Progress Party to obtain a majority in the Legislative Assembly of Costa Rica for the 2026 Costa Rican general election. ^[7]

September

• 12 September – Police arrest four suspects in the June killing of exiled Nicaraguan politician Roberto Samcam in San José. ^[8]
• 22 September – A motion in the Legislative Assembly of Costa Rica to remove Rodrigo Chaves' presidential immunity amid corruption allegations against him fails after coming short of obtaining a supermajority. ^[9]
• 24 September – All flights to and from Costa Rica are suspended after the radar system of Juan Santamaría International Airport suffers a systems failure. ^[10]
• 27 September – A Mexican national is seriously injured in a shark attack off the coast of Cocos Island. ^[11]

October

• 8 October – President Chaves nominates former vice president Rebeca Grynspan to become the next Secretary-General of the United Nations upon the end of António Guterres' tenure in 2026. ^[12]

Holidays

Further information: Public holidays in Costa Rica

Source: ^[13]

• 1 January – New Year's Day
• 11 April – Juan Santamaría
• 17 April – Maundy Thursday
• 18 April – Good Friday
• 1 May – Labour Day
• 25 July – Guanacaste Day
• 2 August – Lady of the Angels Day
• 15 August – Assumption Day, Mother's Day
• 31 August – Day of the Black Person and Afro-Costa Rican Culture
• 15 September – Independence Day
• 1 December – Army Abolition Day
• 25 December – Christmas Day

Deaths

• 20 June – Marita Camacho Quirós, 114, first lady (1962–1966). ^[14]
• 9 July – Brunhilda de Portilla, 96, educator and composer. ^[15]
• 17 August – José Ricardo Carballo, 42, presenter, journalist and writer. ^[16]
• 25 September – Karen Olsen Beck, 95, diplomat, first lady (1954–1958, 1970–1974), and MLA (1986–1990). ^[17]

References

1. "US deports 135 migrants to Costa Rica". Vanguard News. 21 February 2025. Retrieved 2 April 2025.
2. "Costa Rica tour of Falkland Islands 2025: Full schedule, squads, match timings, and live-streaming details". Sports Keeda. 10 March 2025. Retrieved 2 April 2025.
3. "Falklands' cricket team returns to Costa Rica after 14 years with an excellent performance". MercoPress. Retrieved 2 April 2025.
4. "Costa Rica's Poás Volcano Sends Ash Plume Skyward in Latest Eruption". The Tico Times. 30 March 2025. Retrieved 2 April 2025.
5. "Outspoken Nicaraguan opposition figure shot to death at his home in Costa Rica". AP News. 20 June 2025. Retrieved 20 June 2025.
6. "Malcolm-Jamal Warner, 'Cosby Show' actor, dies at 54 in Costa Rica drowning". AP News. 22 July 2025. Retrieved 22 July 2025.
7. "Costa Rican president's Cabinet resigns en masse to secure congressional majority". AP News. 31 July 2025. Retrieved 31 July 2025.
8. "Costa Rican police arrest 4 in killing of Nicaraguan opposition figure". Reuters. 12 September 2025. Retrieved 16 September 2025.
9. "Effort to strip Costa Rica President Chaves of immunity falls short in congressional vote". AP News. 23 September 2025. Retrieved 23 September 2025.
10. "Costa Rica halts all flights after radar failure at main airport". AP News. 24 September 2025. Retrieved 21 September 2025.
11. "Mexican marine biologist attacked by a shark near remote island in Costa Rica". AP News. 30 September 2025. Retrieved 2 October 2025.
12. "Costa Rica nominates former Vice President Rebeca Grynspan to lead UN". AP News . 9 October 2025. Retrieved 9 October 2025.
13. "Costa Rica Public Holidays 2025". Public Holidays Global. Retrieved 22 October 2024.
14. Chaves, Fernanda Matarrita (20 June 2025). "Fallece ex primera dama Marita Camacho de Orlich a los 114 años" [Former first lady Marita Camacho de Orlich dies at 114]. La Nación (in Spanish). Retrieved 21 June 2025.
15. "Murió Brunhilda de Portilla, histórica compositora que marcó la Navidad de Costa Rica". La Nación (in Spanish). 9 July 2025. Retrieved 18 July 2025.
16. Rojas, Johan (17 August 2025). "Esta fue la causa del fallecimiento de José Ricardo Carballo, integrante de Pelando El Ojo". CR Hoy (in Spanish). Retrieved 19 August 2025.
17. Mora, Cristian (25 September 2025). "Fallece Karen Olsen, exprimera dama de la República y madre del expresidente José María Figueres Olsen". La Nación (in Spanish). Retrieved 26 September 2025.

External links

• Online calendar