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The rise of anti-immigrant attitudes, violence and nationalism in Costa Rica

  • Written by Caitlin Fouratt, Professor of International Studies, California State University, Long Beach
imageWorkers wash freshly harvested bananas on a banana plantation near Parrita, Costa Rica.AP Photo/Kent Gilbert

Costa Rica is often thought of as the “Switzerland of the Americas.”

With a stable democracy and no standing army, the small Central American country of 4.8 million is often referred to as the “exception” to the...

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