Inside Costa Rica » Election 2014 https://insidecostarica.com Costa Rica's Leading English Language News Source Fri, 28 Sep 2018 21:35:33 +0000 en-US hourly 1 http://wordpress.org/?v=3.6.2 High expectations as Costa Rica swears in presidenthttps://insidecostarica.com/2014/05/08/high-expectations-costa-rica-swears-president/ https://insidecostarica.com/2014/05/08/high-expectations-costa-rica-swears-president/#comments Thu, 08 May 2014 20:19:08 +0000 Inside Costa Rica Staff http://insidecostarica.com/?p=14760 Costa Rica's new President Luis Guillermo Solis pledged to run his administration as a "glass house" and tackle corruption "eating away" at the country and economy as he was inaugurated Thursday. The 56-year-old historian took the oath of office at…

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]]> https://insidecostarica.com/2014/05/08/high-expectations-costa-rica-swears-president/feed/ 2 Live Coverage: Inauguration of Luis Guillermo Solís, President of Costa Ricahttps://insidecostarica.com/2014/05/08/live-coverage-inauguration-luis-guillermo-solis-president-costa-rica/ https://insidecostarica.com/2014/05/08/live-coverage-inauguration-luis-guillermo-solis-president-costa-rica/#comments Thu, 08 May 2014 17:16:10 +0000 Inside Costa Rica Staff http://insidecostarica.com/?p=14749 Email this page www.InsideCostaRica.com Live video coverage of the inauguration of Luis Guillermo Solís, President of the Republic of Costa Rica. Video coverage provided by TeleTica-7.  (Editor’s note: the below feed, originally live, is now in loop.) LIVE BLOG Follow all of our live updates from the inauguration in real time below!  Just stay on […]

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]]> https://insidecostarica.com/2014/05/08/live-coverage-inauguration-luis-guillermo-solis-president-costa-rica/feed/ 23 Solis, unchallenged, wins Costa Rican presidencyhttps://insidecostarica.com/2014/04/07/solis-unchallenged-wins-costa-rican-presidency/ https://insidecostarica.com/2014/04/07/solis-unchallenged-wins-costa-rican-presidency/#comments Mon, 07 Apr 2014 12:13:37 +0000 Inside Costa Rica Staff http://insidecostarica.com/?p=14220 Email this page www.InsideCostaRica.com April 7th, 2014 (InsideCostaRica.com) Former diplomat and academic Luis Guillermo Solis has easily won Costa Rica’s presidential runoff election. Sunday’s win was no surprise. His opponent, Johnny Araya of the ruling National Liberation Party, or PLN, dropped out of the race on March 5th after Solis’ popularity skyrocketed following the first-round vote. […]

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]]> https://insidecostarica.com/2014/04/07/solis-unchallenged-wins-costa-rican-presidency/feed/ 7 2014 monumental in shaping Latin America’s futurehttps://insidecostarica.com/2014/03/17/2014-monumental-shaping-latin-americas-future/ https://insidecostarica.com/2014/03/17/2014-monumental-shaping-latin-americas-future/#comments Mon, 17 Mar 2014 14:45:05 +0000 Inside Costa Rica Staff http://insidecostarica.com/?p=13966 Email this page www.InsideCostaRica.com By Gabrielle Meyer March 17th, 2014 (VOXXI) With seven out of 19 Latin American countries holding presidential elections in 2014, this year is monumental for shaping the course of Latin America’s political future. On March 9th, Salvador Sánchez Ceren of the governing left-wing Farabundo Martí National Liberation Front (FMLN) won the presidential […]

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]]> https://insidecostarica.com/2014/03/17/2014-monumental-shaping-latin-americas-future/feed/ 0 Campaign chief: Polls led Johnny Araya to drop out of the presidential racehttps://insidecostarica.com/2014/03/10/campaign-chief-polls-led-johnny-araya-drop-presidential-race/ https://insidecostarica.com/2014/03/10/campaign-chief-polls-led-johnny-araya-drop-presidential-race/#comments Mon, 10 Mar 2014 15:51:09 +0000 Inside Costa Rica Staff http://insidecostarica.com/?p=13928 Email this page www.InsideCostaRica.com March 10th, 2014 (InsideCostaRica.com) Recent polls that showed PLN presidential hopeful, Johnny Araya significantly trailing rival Luis Guillermo Solis (PAC) for the April 6th presidential runoff led to Araya’s decision to end his campaign last Tuesday, according to his campaign staff.   Several pollsters including CID-Gallup, Borges y Asociados and Demoscopía […]

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]]> https://insidecostarica.com/2014/03/10/campaign-chief-polls-led-johnny-araya-drop-presidential-race/feed/ 4 Costa Rica election tribunal orders recounthttps://insidecostarica.com/2014/02/04/costa-rica-election-tribunal-orders-recount/ https://insidecostarica.com/2014/02/04/costa-rica-election-tribunal-orders-recount/#comments Tue, 04 Feb 2014 12:50:36 +0000 Inside Costa Rica Staff http://insidecostarica.com/?p=13465 Email this page www.InsideCostaRica.com SAN JOSÉ, February 4, 2014 (AFP) – Costa Rica’s election tribunal ordered a manual recount of presidential polls on Monday after the first round of voting left the main contenders facing a run-off. Election chief Luis Antonio Sobrado said results had been recorded from 6,000 of 6,515 polling stations across the […]

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]]> https://insidecostarica.com/2014/02/04/costa-rica-election-tribunal-orders-recount/feed/ 0 Observers praise transparency of Costa Rica elections, but urge change in pollinghttps://insidecostarica.com/2014/02/03/observers-praise-transparency-costa-rica-elections-urge-change-polling/ https://insidecostarica.com/2014/02/03/observers-praise-transparency-costa-rica-elections-urge-change-polling/#comments Mon, 03 Feb 2014 19:23:39 +0000 Inside Costa Rica Staff http://insidecostarica.com/?p=13447 Email this page www.InsideCostaRica.com February 3rd, 2014 (InsideCostaRica.com) Election observers from the Organization of American States (OAS) praised the transparency of yesterday’s general elections in Costa Rica, but are recommending that the Supreme Electoral Tribunal (TSE) take steps to normalize pre-election polling in the country.   “In terms of transparency, the mission noted that campaign […]

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]]> https://insidecostarica.com/2014/02/03/observers-praise-transparency-costa-rica-elections-urge-change-polling/feed/ 1 Surprise contender in Costa Rica will head to presidential run-offhttps://insidecostarica.com/2014/02/03/surprise-contender-costa-rica-will-head-presidential-run/ https://insidecostarica.com/2014/02/03/surprise-contender-costa-rica-will-head-presidential-run/#comments Mon, 03 Feb 2014 14:03:26 +0000 Inside Costa Rica Staff http://insidecostarica.com/?p=13430 Email this page www.InsideCostaRica.com SAN JOSE, February 3, 2014 (AFP) – Centrist Luis Guillermo Solis took a surprise lead in Costa Rica’s presidential election Sunday, and will now face a ruling party candidate in a run-off vote in April. Long considered the “Switzerland of Central America” for its peaceful and stable democracy, Costa Rica has […]

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]]> https://insidecostarica.com/2014/02/03/surprise-contender-costa-rica-will-head-presidential-run/feed/ 1 Costa Rica’s prisoners were encouraged to vote – with cigaretteshttps://insidecostarica.com/2014/02/03/costa-ricas-prisoners-encouraged-vote-cigarettes/ https://insidecostarica.com/2014/02/03/costa-ricas-prisoners-encouraged-vote-cigarettes/#comments Mon, 03 Feb 2014 14:00:25 +0000 Inside Costa Rica Staff http://insidecostarica.com/?p=13443 Email this page www.InsideCostaRica.com February 3rd, 2014 (InsideCostaRica.com) Prison and election officials this year came up with a clever idea to encourage the country’s more than 7,000 prisoners to exercise their right to vote: cigarettes.   Yesterday, in exchange for prisoners’ votes in Costa Rica’s general elections, prisoners were given four cigarettes after casting their […]

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]]> https://insidecostarica.com/2014/02/03/costa-ricas-prisoners-encouraged-vote-cigarettes/feed/ 4 Costa Rica seems set for second-round presidential votehttps://insidecostarica.com/2014/02/02/costa-rica-set-second-round-presidential-vote/ https://insidecostarica.com/2014/02/02/costa-rica-set-second-round-presidential-vote/#comments Mon, 03 Feb 2014 03:57:43 +0000 Inside Costa Rica Staff http://insidecostarica.com/?p=13426 Email this page www.InsideCostaRica.com SAN JOSE, February 2, 2014 (AFP & InsideCostaRica.com) – Costa Rica appeared bound Sunday for a second round of voting in presidential polls, with the leading candidate failing to cross the 40 percent threshold to victory. With nearly a quarter of the ballots counted, the Supreme Electoral Tribunal gave Jonny Araya, […]

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