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...What is this? Carnival?" marveled an American tourist in Costa Rica's flag-bedecked capital, San José. It sure sounded that way. All day long, happy motorists jammed the main drag, Central Avenue, while tapping out beep-beep-beep, beep-beep-beep on their horns...
Thousands of other Ticos, as Costa Ricans call themselves, danced joyously in the streets. It was not Carnival, however, but a bash celebrating another honest election in a part of the world where political honesty and elections are all too rare...
...Costa Rica's seventh peaceful presidential race in the past 25 years, an underdog candidate scored a stunning upset against the dominant party. San Jose Economist Rodrigo Carazo, 51, running under the banner of the center-left Unity Party, managed to snare a shade more than 50% of the 755,000 votes cast; he edged out Luis Alberto Monge, the candi date of the long-ruling National Liberation Party, who got just under...
Carazo said that the results confirmed an "enormous desire for change" in the mountainous, West Virginia-size republic. Indeed, the election proved that Costa Ricans not only wanted a change but were assured of getting it at the ballot box-something voters in other Latin American countries cannot always count...
...group of wealthy Nicaraguan businessmen, lawyers and other prominent figures, including poet and national hero Ernesto Cardenal, have left the country for Costa Rica, vowing never to return until Somoza's fall. Calling themselves Los Doce, ("The Twelve"), the group issued a statement praising the "political maturity" of the FSLN guerrilla movement and warning that the Sandinista front must participate in any solution to Nicaragua's problems...