Talk:Politics of Costa Rica

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I'm sorry, but the new "Isle of Tranquility" section does not belong in this article, it is not encyclopedic. There is no standing army. Almost all the 8,000 or so poorly armed, ill-trained Civil Guards and Rural Guards, basically policemen, lose their jobs whenever political power changes hands. The two groups feud over which should handle external and domestic security threats, and both sometimes must speed to the scene of trouble on bicycles. This changed a LONG time ago, when the civil and rural guards were merged. And of course, there are more than 8000 policemen since this information is from 1984.

In cafes all over town, political exiles endlessly trade gossip, angrily denounce their foes and plot returns to power in Managua, Montevideo or capitals in between. Their presence reflects a freedom where anybody can shout anything he wants so long as he doesn't shoot, explains Armando Vargas, the dynamic Minister of Information.

Political exiles plotting return to power? Hrmm... again, it's 2005, not 1984. Oh, and Armando Vargas has not been Minister of Information for over 20 years. In fact, the Ministry of Information disappeared nearly a decade ago.

If someone disagrees, feel free to put it back. But as a Costa Rican I don't think this information is accurate or worthy of being in the article.

Thanks for info

Thanks for info--i added this section because I thought it was interesting and colorful, didn't really know it was out of dateTravb 20:59, 25 October 2005 (UTC)

Legislative Power

If legislative power is the right to pass laws and ratify international treaties then only the Asamblea Legislativa has legislative power and not the executive branch. The executive branch can't pass any laws although it has certain veto power. --Crio de la Paz (talk) 23:03, 20 March 2008 (UTC)

Executive Cabinet

The President decides how he is going to appoint his ministers: Arias did try to join the agricultural and industry ministry's into one production ministry. There has been also "Ministros sin Cartera" or ministers that do not have a ministry under them and other variations. There isn´t a fixed number of member of the cabinet per se. --Crio de la Paz (talk) 23:26, 20 March 2008 (UTC)

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Updating

I've been updating this page a little bit. It's got great information, but it's a little dated, because it would seem that the last major updates were either directly after the 2006 elections or after the 2007 referendum. I'll try to put the political parties into tables in the next few days. Mvblair (talk) 18:42, 31 March 2014 (UTC)

Just updated the political party section. I transferred most of the information already there (good, concise job whoever wrote it) onto the tables. It might be a good idea to separate some of those recently inactive parties onto the List of political parties in Costa Rica page at some point. I might get to work on that soon. Mvblair (talk) 14:53, 2 April 2014 (UTC)

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