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Images show the President of Panama Laurentino Cortizo and President of Costa Rica Rodrigo Chaves holding a meeting in Panama City to discuss migration issues. IMAGES
Activists gather outside the Inter-American Court of Human Rights (IACHR) in Costa Rica's capital San Jose, where for the first time in its history, a case will be heard about the legality of denying a woman access to abortion services. A woman identified only as "Beatriz" is symbolically squaring off against the Central American country of El Salvador, which enforces an absolute ban on the procedure regardless of the fetus's health or any risk to the pregnant woman. IMAGES
Costa Ricans begin voting to elect one of two scandal-tainted presidential candidates in a country grappling with sky-high poverty and unemployment. IMAGES
Costa Ricans troop to the polls to choose a new president from a crowded field, with no clear favorite for tackling growing economic concerns in one of Latin America's stablest democracies. Often referred to as the region's "happiest" country, Costa Rica is nonetheless grappling with a growing economic crisis, and the ruling Citizen's Action Party (PAC) is set for a bruising defeat. IMAGES
Polling stations across Costa Rica opened early Sunday for a presidential election that has split the country between Fabricio Alvarado, an ultra-conservative evangelical preacher who slams gay rights, and Carlos Alvarado (no relation), a former minister from the center-left ruling party. The result will decide who rules the small Central American nation of five million people for the next four years. IMAGES
The UN's highest court rules in the bitter border row between Costa Rica and Nicaragua ordering Nicaragua to pay less than $380,000 to Costa Rica in compensation for damaging protected wetlands on the river San Juan - well below the $6.7 million demanded by Costa Rica. SOUNDBITE / TO COMPLETE VID1137154_EN
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