The Costa Rica Report (One page, basic version)
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Overview
        Costa Rica is different from the rest of Central America and from the rest of Latin America, because its people share the wealth, land, and central power for more equitably. Its social welfare system and parliamentary democracy don't have anything. This is not a new development, instead its a result of an enduring  consolidation and depending social patterns that arrange from the earliest colonial days. Costa Rica was the most neglected country of Central America, mostly because it was the farthest from the colonial governors, at least that's what Guatemala said.
History


The greatest of the modernizes was President Thomas Guardia Gutierres. He approached american engineers in 1871 to offer the building of a railroad from the settled central plateau over some rugged ground. He first recruited Chinese and Italian workers and when they died by the thousands of malaria and yellow fever and walked out on strike. Als, the national labor movement built a muscle on the United Fruit company during a series of strikes that began on 1913 and  continued through the 30s.

Independence Movement in Costa Rica


Geography Economy People
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