Subscribe via E-Mail

Get all of our news delivered fresh to your inbox every morning! Just tell us your name and where to send it using the form below.

PS – We hate spam too. We don’t sell or share our list with anyone, and we never send commercial email.




luxe
Friday, January 29th, 2016  |  USD: Buy 531.29 / Sell 543.92
20 years

Costa Rica celebrates 64 years without a military today

Email this page

December 1st, 2012 (InsideCostaRica.com) December 1st, 2012 marks the 64th anniversary since Costa Rica abolished its military. Former President Jose Figueres Ferrer formerly abolished the armed forces on December 1st, 1948, after victory in the civil war of that year.

In a ceremony, Figueres broke a wall with a mallet to symbolize the end of Costa Rica’s military.

The following year, the abolition of the military was introduced to the Costa Rican Constitution with Article 12.

The budget previously dedicated to the military has since been used for security, education, and culture.

President Oscar Arias Sanchez, in 1986, declared December 1st to be the Día de la Abolición del Ejército (Military abolition day) with Law #8115.

Costa Rica is one of only fifteen countries in the world which has absolutely no military forces.

 

 

costa rica news

ATTENTION: If you are seeing this message,


Advertisement


Get our news delivered fresh to your inbox every morning.

Click here to subscribe to our email list. We hate spam too and never send commercial email.

Like us on Facebook and receive our news in your timeline

      • Donovan Bock

        Peace is for chumps? You’re a fucking idiot and brainwashed morons like you are why the world sucks so much. Keep loving your master’s mercenaries though, moron.

      Popular Content