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Amor Artificial (English: Artificial Love) is the 6th studio album made by Costa Rican rock band, "Evolución".
Deborah Nowalski Kader, better known by her stage name Debi Nova, is a Costa Rican singer-songwriter and dancer from Escazú, Costa Rica who resides in Los Angeles, California.
Giannina Facio (born September 10, 1955) is a Costa Rican actress, who has appeared in a number of films by British film director and producer Ridley Scott.
Costa Rican farmers and multinational corporations within Costa Rica practice two primary methods of farming: Plantation agriculture which includes practices by global companies such as Dole, Chiquita, Del Monte, etc. and sustainable/permaculture.
Cocorí is also the name of a famous children’s book by the Costa Rican writer Joaquín Gutiérrez.
She lost her semifinal bout to Paige McPherson of the United States but earnt her position at the Games by beating Costa Rican Katherine Alvarado by a score of 11–8 in the third-place match.
Antonio Álvarez Desanti (born 1958), Costa Rican businessman and politician
She has also modelled for Pierre Cardin Lingerie, Raoul Fashion, Avon Mascara, Olay Total Effects, Sally Hansen Cosmetics and other fashion brands making her a role model to the Costa Rican public in the international fashion scene.
Born in Alajuela to a single mother, Fallas completed only the first two years of secondary schooling before emigrating to Limón, in the Costa Rican Atlantic coast, where he worked in the banana plantations of the United Fruit Company.
As an author he is best known for his novels Mamita Yunai (1940), which denounced the harsh condition endured by workers for the United Fruit Company and which is referenced in Pablo Neruda's Canto General, and for Marcos Ramírez (1952), a humorous bildungsroman about the life of a Costa Rican boy in the early 20th century, taken largely from Fallas's own life.
In 1962 he was married to Dorothy Stark Stabler and together they had three children: Giovanna (b. 1963, a diplomat with the Costa Rican government), César (b. 1965, a professor at Illinois Wesleyan University) and Rocío (1967).
Active in her own right, Christiana’s mother, Karen Olsen Beck, served as Costa Rican Ambassador to Israel in 1982 and was elected to the Legislative Assembly for the 1990–1994 period.
Denilson married Costa Rican Mirta Yorleni Ortiz whom he met while playing in Limón.
Diego Alonso Estrada Valverde (born 25 May 1989 in Alajuela, Costa Rica) is a Costa Rican footballer.
However, in fall 2004, three former Costa Rican presidents (Jose Maria Figueres, Miguel Angel Rodríguez, and Rafael Angel Calderon) were investigated on corruption charges related to the issuance of government contracts.
Luis Gabelo Conejo, a Costa Rican soccer player has the nickname "El Conejo de la Suerte".
Brown Forbes was born in Berlin, to a Costa Rican father and a German mother, and spent his first six years in Limón.
Contreras helps to form a new Costa Rican narrative which breaks with the costumbrism of the 40 generation and with the urban generation of the 60's, and along with other writers like Anacristina Rossi, Rodolfo Arias Formoso, Tatiana Lobo and Ana Istarú, part of the so-called generation of disenchantment.
Gilberto Martínez Vidal (born October 1, 1979 in Golfito, Costa Rica) is a Costa Rican footballer.
Hanna Gabriel Valle (Alajuela, Costa Rica, January 14, 1983) is a Costa Rican boxer, junior middleweight category, whose career has been highlighted by several international victories.
Heriberto Quiros Linton (born 26 July 1972 in Cartago) is a former Costa Rican football player who last played for AD Carmelita in the Costa Rican Primera División.
In the novel, InGen founder John Hammond is killed in the accident and InGen files for Chapter 11 on October 5, 1989, the island is destroyed by the (fictional) Costa Rican Air force, the survivors are sworn to secrecy and by the time of The Lost World, InGen is defunct with its equipment being sold off.
Since 2011, América Móvil through Claro Americas and Telefónica through Movistar, are competing against ICE in the Costa Rican mobile market.
Jody Stewart Jones (born 17 February 1986) is a Costa Rican footballer who currently plays for Deportivo Saprissa.
During the years 1947 and 1948, he served as legal advisor to the Costa Rican Confederation of Workers of Rerum Novarum.
As Sergeant Major, Lacayo endured a very difficult period in the area of Cartago near the Salto river, on the Costa Rican border of Nicoya and Nicaragua.
Juan José de Bonilla y Herdocia, Costa Rican politician, signer of Declaration of Independence
His mother, Karen Olsen Beck, born in the United States to Danish immigrants, later adopted Costa Rican nationality.
Martinez began his career with top Costa Rican side Deportivo Saprissa.
Josué Isaac Martinez Areas (born 25 March 1990) is a Costa Rican footballer who currently plays for Deportivo Saprissa.
It began production in 1994, and is currently owned by Costa Rican company Florida Ice & Farm Co. It brews three year-round beers and several seasonal products and one-off batches.
Prior to 1989 there was only one Costa Rican record, but it is now easily seen at least as far south as San José, and it is expected to colonise Panama.
In 2007, Christian Sapsizian, a former adjunct to the vicepresident of Alcatel for Latin America, pleaded guilty in the U.S. District Court of Miami to violating the Foreign Corrupt Practices Act by conspiring with Edgar Valverde (the president of Alcatel in Costa Rica) to bribe an "official" of the Costa Rican Institute of Electricity (ICE) and a "senior government official" of Costa Rica.
On 22 October 2010, the British media reported that Julian Messent, a former executive in the reinsurance firm PWS (owned by Lord Pearson), had pleaded guilty in Southwark Crown Court to paying £ 1.2 million in bribes to three Costa Rican officials, in exchange for a contract with the state insurance monopoly, the Instituto Nacional de Seguros (INS).
Miguel Ángel Rodríguez (born 1940), Costa Rican economist, lawyer, businessman, and politician
Also, several Costa Rican universities have headquarters in the region: the National University of Costa Rica (Campus Coto) opened a new center for providing public higher education to nearby communities.
Las Baulas National Marine Park, a Costa Rican national park also known as "Playa Grande Marine Turtle National Park"
Costa Rican stamps were issued overprinted "Guanacaste" in 1885-89 following war with Nicaragua over the sovereignty of Guanacaste.
The Costa Rican chieftains in the Intermediate Area had greater powers than those of Nicoya; for example, when Correque moved his residence from Ujarrás to Tucurrique, he brought with him many elders and gentlemen along with their sons, "because the place he wanted was settled and nobody contradicted him."
Quico Chacón (born 1934), former professional footballer who played in the Costa Rican Primera División and Mexican Primera División
García won the 2008 Magón National Prize for Culture, the highest award that can be given to a Costa Rican artist.
Rafael Lucas Rodríguez (1915–1981), Costa Rican biologist, botanist, and artist
This article is about Spanish club, for the Costa Rican club see Gimnástica Española
Costa Rican President Óscar Arias acted as a mediator in the talks between the Honduran government and Manuel Zelaya to try to find a political solution.
Rónald González Brenes (born 1970), Costa Rican football (soccer) player
The quality of the beaches in Sámara and neighboring Carrillo made the area a high priority region of tourism industry development for the Costa Rican government shortly after the opening of Liberia's Daniel Oduber International Airport.
In 2011, Teletica became a major share-holder of Deportivo Saprissa soccer club, after Jorge Vergara sold the team back to a group of Costa Rican businessmen.
He then moved to Comunicaciones where his playing time has, so far, been limited due to the presence of the Costa Rican striker Rolando Fonseca and the Guatemalan national team player Dwight Pezzarossi.
Javier Wanchope (born 1968), former Costa Rican footballer who played as a striker
Paulo Wanchope (born 1976), former Costa Rican footballer who played as a striker
He was assisted by Jose Zeledon, who was to become a well known Costa Rican ornithologist.