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Beginning on the night (UTC-6:00) of April 17, 2022, a ransomware attack began against nearly 30 institutions of the government of Costa Rica, including its Ministry of Finance, the Ministry of Science, Innovation, Technology and Telecommunications (MICITT), the National Meteorological Institute, state internet service provider RACSA, the Costa Rican Social Security Fund (Caja Costarricense de ...
Costa Rica's distance from the capital of the captaincy in Guatemala, its legal prohibition under mercantilist Spanish law from trade with its southern neighbor Panama, then part of the Viceroyalty of New Granada (i.e. Colombia), and lack of resources such as gold and silver, made Costa Rica into a poor, isolated, and sparsely-inhabited region ...
The president of Costa Rica is elected using a modified two-round system in which a candidate must receive at least 40% of the vote to win in the first round; if no candidate wins in the first round, a runoff is held between the two candidates with most votes. [2]
The flights – appearing to depart Tucson, Arizona, and El Paso, Texas – veered over the newly renamed "Gulf of America," flying south across Costa Rica, only to double back north to Guatemala ...
West Caribbean Costa Rica: 0W: WCR: 2003: 2005: Wiggins International: ALA: 1979: 1979: See also. List of airlines of Costa Rica; List of airports in Costa Rica ...
Source: [1] 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
Costa Rica's economy was historically based on agriculture, and this has had a large cultural impact through the years. Costa Rica's main cash crop, historically and up to modern times, was Bananas. The coffee crop had been a major export, but decreased in value to the point where it added only 2.5% to the 2013 exports of the country. [61]
Instituto Costarricense de Electricidad (English: Costa Rican Institute of Electricity) (ICE) is the Costa Rican government-run electricity and telecommunications services provider. Together with the Radiographic Costarricense SA (RACSA) and Compañía Nacional de Fuerza y Luz (CNFL), they form the ICE Group.