In Costa Rica, the costumes were used not only in the fight for women's rights but also for that of gay marriage, a topic that has become front and center in the country's presidential election.

The Inter-American Court of Human Rights in January 2018 issued a landmark ruling that recognized same-sex marriage and transgender rights. Then-Vice President Ana Helena Chacón subsequently ...

The court action paves the way for same-sex marriage to be legal in 18 months, after it's published in the official gazette next week. Same-sex weddings could begin in May 2020. Margarita Salas, a ...

In 1996, Chacon, with the help and support of the alliance, began working on a recycling project developed by a group of Costa Rican students at West Texas A and M University who had been encouraged ...

Florez-Estrada, a 28-year-old Spanish national who has lived in Costa Rica since age 6 and specialises in making pastries, is the sister of a prominent leftist politician, Jose Maria Villalta.

Chaves would not be the first Costa Rican president to face such allegations. Former two-term President Oscar Arias, a Nobel peace laureate, was accused of sexual misconduct by multiple women in 2019.

In Costa Rica approximately 500,000 homes are headed by women who have the double responsibility of home care and working, often with a minimum wage salary. In Costa Rica in the last year 19 women ...

SAN JOSE, Costa Rica (AP) — As Costa Rica’s future president cast his ballot at a school in the capital, a young woman stood on the sidewalk outside shouting, “Harasser!” She was ...

SAN JOSE, Costa Rica (AP) — As Costa Rica’s future president cast his ballot at a school in the capital, a young woman stood on the sidewalk outside shouting, “Harasser!” She was ...