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21 October – The Tico Times reports that freedom of expression and press freedom in Costa Rica has grown more restricted, according to the Chapultepec Index of the Inter American Press Association. The country falls to tenth place on the index, from a ranking of seventh in 2023, and fifth in 2022. [3]
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]
Costa Rica (UK: / ˌ k ɒ s t ə ˈ r iː k ə /, US: / ˌ k oʊ s t ə-/ ⓘ; Spanish: [ˈkosta ˈrika]; literally "Rich Coast"), officially the Republic of Costa Rica, is a country in the Central American region of North America.
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]
There is no VAT in Costa Rica, but there is a generally applied sales tax of 13% that, combined with excise taxes on specific consumption goods raises around half of government revenue. Income tax rates rise with reported income, beginning at 10% for annual income over Costa Rican colón 41,112,000.
Several independent deputies through history have asked the Constitutional Chamber of the Supreme Court of Justice of Costa Rica, to be recognized as the head of a parliamentary fraction or to have the financial resources of a parliamentary fraction, in contradiction with the regulations, this court has stated: [16] [17] [18]
2024 events in Costa Rica by month (1 C) S. 2024 in Costa Rican sport (1 C, 3 P) Pages in category "2024 in Costa Rica" The following 2 pages are in this category ...