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In 1986, President Oscar Arias Sánchez declared December 1 as the Día de la Abolición del Ejército (Military abolition day) with Law #8115. Unlike its neighbors, Costa Rica has not endured a civil war since 1948. Costa Rica maintains small forces capable of law enforcement, but has no permanent standing army.
Costa Rica: Article 12 of the Constitution has forbidden a standing army since 1949, following the Costa Rican Civil War. The Public Force, whose main role includes law enforcement, internal security and command of the Air Vigilance Service, has limited military capacities. [12] [56] Iceland
Costa Rica is one of the few countries without armed forces and, alongside Panama, one of the few that is not a microstate. However, like Panama, Costa Rica does have limited military capacities with its Public Forces which have both police and defense functions and had taken part in military operations since 1949. [2]
[169] [170] [171] Costa Rica has a very low malaria incidence of 48 per 100,000 in 2000 and no reported cases of measles in 2002. The perinatal mortality rate dropped from 12.0 per 1000 in 1972 to 5.4 per 1000 in 2001. [172] Hospital CIMA in Escazú. Costa Rica has been cited as Central America's great health success story. [173]
Costa Rica has no military but maintains a domestic police force and a Special Forces Unit as part of the Ministry of the President. The Economist Intelligence Unit rated Costa Rica a "full democracy" in 2023. [3] According to the V-Dem Democracy indices Costa Rica was in 2023 the most electoral democratic country in Latin America. [4]
As military forces around the world are constantly changing in size, no definitive list can ever be compiled. All of the 172 countries listed here, especially those with the highest number of total soldiers such as the two Koreas and Vietnam , include a large number of paramilitaries, civilians and policemen in their reserve personnel.
Rubio made the comment at a news conference in Costa Rica after meeting Bukele in El Salvador on Monday. Bukele said in a post on X that he had offered the U.S. "the opportunity to outsource part ...
Despite its official abolition of its military, between 1950 and 1970 Costa Rica accepted 1.8 million USD in military aid and 113,000 USD in surplus equipment from the United States. However, in 1981, the Costa Rican government stated that all military equipment on hand — including a small number of M113 armored personnel carriers acquired in ...