COSTA RICA

Costa Rica

Costa Rica

Introduction

Costa Rica is a democratic president. The government's responsibility delegates to the President who represents the executive branch. There are also two vice presidents and five cabinet members, including one of two vice presidents.

The political system of Costa Rica represents three branches: Executive, Legislative and Judicial. The Supreme Electoral Tribunal is considered the fourth power of the Republic every four years when national elections are conducted. Among other elected offices, the President of the Republic is elected through direct vote in a secret ballot.

The Republic of Costa Rica is bordered to the north by Nicaragua, southeast by Panama, east by the Caribbean Sea and Pacific Ocean to the west and south west. The boundaries marked largely by natural elements: the northern border rests on a long stretch of the river San Juan and then follows the shore of Lake Nicaragua.

As per the World Bank, in the year 2004, the region of Costa Rica had a populace of exactly 4.06 million people, out of which 65% were between the age limit of 15 to 64. The rate of unemployment in the country was 6.5 percent of the total population of the labor force in the year 2004 as per the report generated by the International Labor Organization.

According to 2004 PPP attuned Gross Domestic Product per capita in requisites of current price of the international dollars which was 9,805 dollars, a 2.67 percent rise from 9,550 dollars in the year 2003 (Beatrice & Anne 1994).

History of Costa Rica

The country has been inhabited since at least 5000 BC, but the Amerindians of Costa Rica were few compared with the large pre-Columbian civilizations. Christopher Columbus discovered and named Costa Rica in 1502 during his fourth voyage. The Spanish conquest was there later that much of Latin America's central reason for the virulent hostility of Native Americans. John led the first settlers Cavallón winning Costa Rica in 1561.

Costa Rica was part of the overall Capitainerie Guatemala, in the viceroyalty of Mexico, from 1570, but his departure from Guatemala City and its apparent lack of riches allowed him to suffer the same place without direct intervention of the other provinces Central America. Quite few in number in the country, representatives of the Spanish authority and the Church left the country to develop away from the historical trend in Latin America. The colony did not take a certain importance in the eyes of the Guatemalan authorities until the late eighteenth century.

Costa Rican politics was similar to the liberal- conservative ideology of the rest of Latin America and the cities of Cartago, San José, Heredia, and Alajuela and vied for supremacy in the country, and San Jose managed to take the lead. The nineteenth century marked distinctively by the prodigious development of the coffee crop then became a significant export product. Under the leadership, of Tomas Guardia (1870-1882) (Iván & Steven, 1998).

The Colonization in Costa Rica

In the year 1574, the person appointed as an interim government was Don Alonso de Anguciana de ...