2025 in Costa Rica
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Events in the year 2025 in Costa Rica.
Incumbents
[edit]- President: Rodrigo Chaves Robles
- First Vice President: Stephan Brunner
- Second Vice President: Mary Munive
Art and entertainment
[edit]Events
[edit]February
[edit]- 21 February – The United States deports 135 migrants to Costa Rica.[1]
March
[edit]- 1 March – The Falkland Islands Cricket Team tours the country after 14 years.[2][3]
- 31 March – The Poás Volcano erupts and sends ash plumes 1,000 m high.[4]
June
[edit]- 19 June – Exiled Nicaraguan opposition figure Roberto Samcam is shot dead at his residence in San Jose.[5]
July
[edit]- 20 July – American actor Malcolm-Jamal Warner dies in a drowning accident in Playa Cocles, Limón Province.[6]
- 31 July – Vice president Stephan Brunner and six ministers resign from the cabinet of president Chaves amid efforts by the ruling Social Democratic Progress Party to obtain a majority in the Legislative Assembly of Costa Rica for the 2026 Costa Rican general election.[7]
September
[edit]- 12 September – Police arrest four suspects in the June killing of exiled Nicaraguan politician Roberto Samcam in San José.[8]
- 22 September – A motion in the Legislative Assembly of Costa Rica to remove Rodrigo Chaves' presidential immunity amid corruption allegations against him fails after coming short of obtaining a supermajority.[9]
- 24 September – All flights to and from Costa Rica are suspended after the radar system of Juan Santamaría International Airport suffers a systems failure.[10]
Holidays
[edit]Source:[11]
- 1 January – New Year's Day
- 11 April – Juan Santamaría
- 17 April – Maundy Thursday
- 18 April – Good Friday
- 1 May – Labour Day
- 25 July – Guanacaste Day
- 2 August – Lady of the Angels Day
- 15 August – Assumption Day, Mother's Day
- 31 August – Day of the Black Person and Afro-Costa Rican Culture
- 15 September – Independence Day
- 1 December – Army Abolition Day
- 25 December – Christmas Day
Deaths
[edit]- 20 June – Marita Camacho Quirós, 114, first lady (1962–1966).[12]
- 9 July – Brunhilda de Portilla, 96, educator and composer.[13]
- 17 August – José Ricardo Carballo, 42, presenter, journalist and writer.[14]
References
[edit]- ^ "US deports 135 migrants to Costa Rica". Vanguard News. 21 February 2025. Retrieved 2 April 2025.
- ^ "Costa Rica tour of Falkland Islands 2025: Full schedule, squads, match timings, and live-streaming details". Sports Keeda. 10 March 2025. Retrieved 2 April 2025.
- ^ "Falklands' cricket team returns to Costa Rica after 14 years with an excellent performance". MercoPress. Retrieved 2 April 2025.
- ^ "Costa Rica's Poás Volcano Sends Ash Plume Skyward in Latest Eruption". The Tico Times. 30 March 2025. Retrieved 2 April 2025.
- ^ "Outspoken Nicaraguan opposition figure shot to death at his home in Costa Rica". AP News. 20 June 2025. Retrieved 20 June 2025.
- ^ "Malcolm-Jamal Warner, 'Cosby Show' actor, dies at 54 in Costa Rica drowning". AP News. 22 July 2025. Retrieved 22 July 2025.
- ^ "Costa Rican president's Cabinet resigns en masse to secure congressional majority". AP News. 31 July 2025. Retrieved 31 July 2025.
- ^ "Costa Rican police arrest 4 in killing of Nicaraguan opposition figure". Reuters. 12 September 2025. Retrieved 16 September 2025.
- ^ "Effort to strip Costa Rica President Chaves of immunity falls short in congressional vote". AP News. 23 September 2025. Retrieved 23 September 2025.
- ^ "Costa Rica halts all flights after radar failure at main airport". AP News. 24 September 2025. Retrieved 21 September 2025.
- ^ "Costa Rica Public Holidays 2025". Public Holidays Global. Retrieved 22 October 2024.
- ^ Chaves, Fernanda Matarrita (20 June 2025). "Fallece ex primera dama Marita Camacho de Orlich a los 114 años" [Former first lady Marita Camacho de Orlich dies at 114]. La Nación (in Spanish). Retrieved 21 June 2025.
- ^ "Murió Brunhilda de Portilla, histórica compositora que marcó la Navidad de Costa Rica". La Nación (in Spanish). 9 July 2025. Retrieved 18 July 2025.
- ^ Rojas, Johan (17 August 2025). "Esta fue la causa del fallecimiento de José Ricardo Carballo, integrante de Pelando El Ojo". CR Hoy (in Spanish). Retrieved 19 August 2025.
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