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    Felicia Montealegre Bernstein (category Costa Rican people of American descent)
    Montealegre; February 6, 1922 – June 16, 1978) was an American actress born in Costa Rica. Montealegre appeared in televised dramas and theatrical roles. She also...
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  • of European racial superiority in Costa Rica had previous origins, as for example among the racist writings of Costa Rican scientist Clodomiro Picado Twight...
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  • Frente Obrero Social Patriota. President of Costa Rica Teodoro Picado Michalski, who governed between 1944 and 1948, was an admirer of Falangism and Somocismo...
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  • general election, two independent candidates were elected. Current laws in Costa Rica do not permit a citizen to run directly for any elected position as an...
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  • pre-kindergarten or kindergarten. Costa Rica has the highest ranked education system in Latin America. Primary education in Costa Rica is required by law for most...
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  • Lee Holdridge (category 1944 births)
    Port-au-Prince, Haiti, of a Puerto Rican mother and an American father, Leslie Holdridge, a botanist and climatologist. While living in Costa Rica, at...
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    United States United Kingdom Soviet Union China Australia Belgium Canada Costa Rica Cuba Czechoslovakia Dominican Republic El Salvador Greece Guatemala Haiti...
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    United Kingdom, most of them in London. The first French emigration in Costa Rica was a very small number to Cartago in the mid-nineteenth century. Due...
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  • in Costa Rica María Eugenia Vargas Solera: First female judge in Costa Rica (upon her appointment as a Judge of the Juvenile Protection of Costa Rica in...
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    was taken to Costa Rica in 2020 where she supports the Government Environmental Agency SINAC in various campaigns protecting Costa Rica's national parks...
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