2024 in Costa Rica
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Events in the year 2024 in Costa Rica.
Events
- 4 February – 2024 Costa Rican municipal elections.
- 22 May – Ligia Madrigal became the first Costa Rican woman and second Costa Rican person to climb Mount Everest. Costa Rican Warner Rojas climbed it in 2012.[1][2]
- 29 June – Culture Minister Nayuribe Guadamuz is dismissed for giving official backing for a pride parade in San Jose without authorization from President Rodrigo Chaves Robles.[3]
- 14 August – Five officials of the national child welfare agency are arrested on suspicion of trafficking migrant children for adoption.[4]
- 21 October – The Tico Times reports that freedom of expression and press freedom in Costa Rica has grown more restricted, according to the Chapultepec Index of the Inter American Press Association. The country falls to tenth place on the index, from a ranking of seventh in 2023, and fifth in 2022.[5]
- 25 November – A Cessna 206 crashes near Cerro Pico Blanco, killing all but one of its six occupants.[6]
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