Cartago is the head city of Cartago canton of the Cartago Province,and is composed of the Oriental and Occidental districts as stated in the administrative divisions of Costa Rica. It was the capital of Costa Rica from 1574 to 1824.
Monge is a surname. Notable people with the surname include:
Club Sport Cartaginés Deportiva S.A.,also known as Cartaginés,is a Costa Rican football club,that currently plays in the Liga de Fútbol de Primera División,the top division of Costa Rican football league system. Cartaginés' home venue is Estadio Jose Rafael Fello Meza,located in Barrio Asis of Cartago.
Brujas F.C. was a Costa Rican football club,based in Desamparados,Costa Rica.
Lesbian,gay,bisexual,and transgender (LGBT) rights in Costa Rica have evolved significantly in the past decades. Same-sex sexual relations have been legal since 1971. In January 2018,the Inter-American Court of Human Rights made mandatory the approbation of same-sex marriage,adoption for same-sex couples and the removal of people's sex from all Costa Rican ID cards issued since October 2018. The Costa Rican Government announced that it would apply the rulings in the following months. In August 2018,the Costa Rican Supreme Court ruled against the country's same-sex marriage ban,and gave the Legislative Assembly 18 months to reform the law accordingly,otherwise the ban would be abolished automatically. Same-sex marriage became legal on 26 May 2020.
Same-sex marriage in Costa Rica has been legal since May 26,2020 as a result of a ruling by the Supreme Court of Justice. Costa Rica was the first country in Central America to recognize and perform same-sex marriages.
Ezequiel Gutiérrez Iglesias was a Costa Rican politician.
The Supreme Court of Costa Rica is the court of greater hierarchy of Law and Justice in Costa Rica.
Luis Paulino Mora Mora was a Costa Rican judge. He was the President of the Supreme Court of Costa Rica from July 12,1999 until his death in 2013.
The history of the Jews in Costa Rica dates back to the Spanish conquest with the arrival of many Sephardic converts known as Marranos who escaped from the Spanish Inquisition and settled mainly in the city of Cartago and its surroundings. They hid their Jewish past by all means,making even their descendants have no idea of it.
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.
Orión F.C. is a Costa Rican football club,based in Desamparados.
Events in the year 2014 in Costa Rica.
General elections were held in Costa Rica on Sunday,2 February 2014 to elect a new president,two vice presidents,and 57 Legislative Assembly lawmakers. In accordance with Article 132 of the constitution,incumbent President Laura Chinchilla Miranda was ineligible to run for a second consecutive term.
Trade unions in Costa Rica advocate for the rights of workers in Costa Rica. Dating back to the late 1800s,labor unions in the country have been a political force. They remain active in political and social life for many Costa Ricans.
The Constitution of Costa Rica is the supreme law of Costa Rica. At the end of the 1948 Costa Rican Civil War,JoséFigueres Ferrer oversaw the Costa Rican Constitutional Assembly,which drafted the document. It was approved on 1949 November 7. Several older constitutions had been in effect starting from 1812,with the most recent former constitution ratified in 1871. The Costa Rican Constitution is remarkable in that in its Article 12 abolished the Costa Rican military,making it the second nation after Japan to do so by law. Another unusual clause is an amendment asserting the right to live in a healthy natural environment.
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.
María Mercedes Peñas Domingo is a Spanish–Costa Rican political scientist and specialist in international development in Latin America. Peñas,the longtime partner of former Costa Rican President Luis Guillermo Solís,held the position of First Lady of Costa Rica from May 8,2014 to May 8,2018. Peñas and Solis live under civil partnership.
The Reform State or Reformist State is a period in Costa Rican history characterized by the change in political and economic paradigm switching from the uncontrolled capitalism and laissez faire of the Liberal State into a more economically progressive Welfare State. The period ranges from approximately 1940 starting with the presidency of social reformer Rafael Angel Calderón Guardia and ends around the 1980s with the first neoliberal and Washington Consensus reforms that began after the government of Luis Alberto Monge.
Rocío Aguilar Montoya is a Costa Rican politician. She was the eleventh Comptroller General of the Republic of Costa Rica (2005-2012). Between May 2018 and October 2019,she was the Minister of Finance.
