Alajuela is a province of Costa Rica. It is located in the north-central part of the country,bordering Nicaragua to the north. It also borders the provinces of Heredia to the east,San Joséto the south,Puntarenas to the southwest and Guanacaste to the west. As of 2011,the province had a population of 885,571. Alajuela is composed of 16 cantons,which are divided into 111 districts. It covers an area of 9,757.53 square kilometers.
Carmen Lyra was the pseudonym of the first prominent female Costa Rican writer,born María Isabel Carvajal Quesada. She was a teacher and founder of the country's first Montessori school. She was a co-founder of the Communist Party of Costa Rica,as well as one of the country's first female worker's unions. She was one of the earliest writers to criticize the dominance of the fruit companies. She won many prizes.
Epsy Alejandra Campbell Barr is a Costa Rican politician and economist who served as the Vice-president of Costa Rica from 8 May 2018 to 8 May 2022. She is the first woman of African descent to be vice president in Costa Rica and in Latin America.
Costa Rican literature has roots in colonization and is marked by European influences. Because Costa Rica is a young country,its literary tradition is also young. The history of Costa Rican literature dates to the end of the 19th century.
Yolanda Oreamuno Unger was a Costa Rican writer. Her most acclaimed novel is La Ruta de su Evasión (1948). Her 40 years of life were markedly divided into two phases:the first 20 years,filled with youth,beauty and happiness,contrasted sharply with the following years of tragedy,loneliness and sickness.
Carlos Alvarado Quesada was the President of Costa Rica from 2018 to 2022.
Costa Rica–Uruguay relations refers to the diplomatic relations between Costa Rica and Uruguay. Both nations are members of the Community of Latin American and Caribbean States,Group of 77,Organization of American States,Organization of Ibero-American States and the United Nations.
Costa Rica–Mexico relations are the diplomatic relations between Costa Rica and Mexico. Both nations are members of the Association of Caribbean States,Community of Latin American and Caribbean States,Organization of American States,Organization of Ibero-American States and the United Nations.
Estela Quesada (1924–2011) was a Costa Rican teacher,lawyer and politician. She was one of the first three women elected to the Costa Rican legislature in the first election after women attained enfranchisement. She was the first woman to hold a cabinet-level position in Costa Rica as Minister of Education and was later the first woman to serve as minister of Labor and Social Security. She was inducted into the National Women's Institute Gallery as an Outstanding Woman of Costa Rica in 2009.
Doris Yankelewitz Berger was a Costa Rican artist,politician,political activist,and member of the National Liberation Party (PLN). She served as the First Lady of Costa Rica from 1982 to 1986 during the presidency of her then-husband,President Luis Alberto Monge. She was the nation's first Jewish First Lady.
Carlos Andrés Alvarado Quesada is a Costa Rican politician,writer,journalist,and political scientist who served as the 48th president of Costa Rica from 8 May 2018 to 8 May 2022. A member of the Citizens' Action Party (PAC),Alvarado previously served as Minister of Labor and Social Security during the presidency of Luis Guillermo Solís.
General elections were held in Costa Rica in 2018 to elect both the President and Legislative Assembly. The first round of the presidential election was held on 4 February 2018,with the two highest-ranked candidates being Christian singer and Congressman Fabricio Alvarado Muñoz from the conservative National Restoration Party and writer and former Minister Carlos Alvarado Quesada from the progressive Citizens' Action Party,gaining 24% and 21% of the votes respectively. As no candidate received more than 40% of the first round vote,a second round run-off election was held on 1 April 2018 and was won by Carlos Alvarado Quesada,with a landslide victory of 60.6% of the vote.
The New Republic Party is a Costa Rican Christian-conservative political party founded on 20 October 2018. The party was founded after the resignation of the evangelical singer and journalist Fabricio Alvarado Muñoz from the Christian party National Restoration for disagreements with the Executive Committee chaired by Congressman Carlos Avendaño. Alvarado was the latter's presidential candidate in the 2018 elections of major significance,since he was the most voted in the first round with 25% of the votes,qualifying for the run-off,but was defeated by the Citizen's Action Party nominee Carlos Alvarado Quesada.
Marcia González Aguiluz is a Costa Rican politician and lawyer who served as the Minister of Justice and Peace under President Carlos Alvarado Quesada between 2018 and 2020.
Events in the year 2020 in Costa Rica.
Thelma Darkings Bucknam is a Costa Rican actress and television presenter. She is known for hosting the Costa Rican talk show programs Conectados and previously Entre nos. Her film credits include Noi siamo angeli (1997),Caribe (2004),and El último comandante (2010).
General elections were held in Costa Rica on 6 February 2022,to elect the president,two vice-presidents,and all 57 deputies of the Legislative Assembly. As none of the presidential nominees obtained at least 40% of the votes,a runoff was held on 3 April 2022,between the top two candidates,JoséMaría Figueres and Rodrigo Chaves Robles.
Carmen Geannina Dinarte Romero is a Costa Rican politician serving as the 30th and current minister of the Presidency of Costa Rica since 2020. A member of the Citizens' Action Party,she served as vice minister of SMEs and Entrepreneurship between 2014 and 2017 and as minister of Economy,Industry and Commerce between 2017 and 2018 in the Solís Rivera administration,and as minister of Labor and Social Security in the Alvarado Quesada administration from 2018 to 2020. Dinarte became the youngest person to hold the Ministry of the Presidency,as well as the third woman and the first person of Guanacastecan origin to do so,when she was appointed by president Carlos Alvarado Quesada in December 2020.
Costa Rican nationality law is regulated by the Options and Naturalizations Act,which was originally named the Immigration and Naturalization Act and established under the 1949 Constitution. These laws determine who is,or is eligible to be,a citizen of Costa Rica. The legal means to acquire nationality and formal membership in a nation differ from the relationship of rights and obligations between a national and the nation,known as citizenship. Costa Rican nationality is typically obtained either on the principle of jus soli,i.e. by birth in Costa Rica;or under the rules of jus sanguinis,i.e. by birth abroad to at least one parent with Costa Rican nationality. It can also be granted to a permanent resident who has lived in Costa Rica for a given period of time through naturalization.
María Amalia Revelo Raventós was a Costa Rican businesswoman and government minister. She served as Minister of Tourism from 2018 to 2020 and led the Instituto Costarricense de Turismo.
