Costa Rica is set to have its first female president, after election results gave governing party candidate Laura Chinchilla an unassailable lead. With most votes counted from Sunday's poll, Ms ...

SAN JOSE, Costa Rica – SAN JOSE, Costa Rica (AP) — Adios, peace prize winner. Hola, first female president. Costa Rica inaugurated Laura Chinchilla as its first woman leader on Saturday ...

On her first day on the job as Costa Rica’s president, Laura Chinchilla signed three executive decrees, providing a glimpse into her policy priorities in her first 100 days in office.

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In a final presidential State of the Nation speech delivered Thursday night to Costa Rica’s new lawmakers, President Laura Chinchilla cited the global economic crisis of 2007-2008, hostile incursions ...

Costa Rica's governing party candidate swept to an election victory today that made her the first woman president in the Central American nation. Laura Chinchilla had 47% of the vote with nearly ...

SAN JOSE, Costa Rica – Costa Ricans have elected their first woman president as the ruling party candidate won in a landslide after campaigning to continue free market policies in Central Ame… ...

Taking to social media, Chinchilla posted a Facebook message stressing that her lawsuit was not a threat to Costa Rica’s famously tolerant freedom of expression: The trial that begins today is NOT ...

That year, German environmental group Sharkproject named Costa Rica’s then-president Abel Pacheco the “Shark Enemy of the Year.” Today the docks are closed, and on Wednesday, Sharkproject gave out an ...

Now in its sixth year, Nearshore Americas’ seminal conference Nexus attracted 150 attendees and close to 20 sponsors to the Le Meridien hotel in San Francisco, the first time this tech-centric city ...

Drug legalization in Central America merits a “serious” debate as a solution to the crime and violence coursing through the region even if it runs up against U.S. opposition, said Costa Rican ...

She has also promised to tackle violent crime, a growing issue in Costa Rica. "The biggest challenge we face is criminality, violence and drug-trafficking," Ms Chinchilla, 50, told her supporters.