2024 in Costa Rica

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See also:	Other events of 2024 Timeline of Costa Rican history

Events in the year 2024 in Costa Rica.

See also: 2024 in Central America

Incumbents

• President: Rodrigo Chaves Robles
• First Vice President: Stephan Brunner
• Second Vice President: Mary Munive

Events

• 4 February – 2024 Costa Rican municipal elections
• 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.
• 14 August – Five officials of the national child welfare agency are arrested on suspicion of trafficking migrant children for adoption.
• 21 October – The Tico Times reported that freedom of expression and press freedom in Costa Rica had grown more restricted, according to the Chapultepec Index of the Inter American Press Association. The country fell to tenth place on the index, from a ranking of seventh in 2023, and fifth in 2022.

Art and entertainment

• List of Costa Rican submissions for the Academy Award for Best International Feature Film

Holidays

Further information: Public holidays in Costa Rica

Source:

• 1 January – New Year's Day
• 28 March – Maundy Thursday
• 29 March – Good Friday
• 11 April – Juan Santamaría
• 1 May – Labour Day
• 25 July – Guanacaste Day
• 2 August – Lady of the Angels Day
• 15 August – Assumption Day, Mother's Day
• 1 September – Day of the Black Person and Afro-Costa Rican Culture
• 15 September – Independence Day
• 1 December – Army Abolition Day
• 25 December – Christmas Day

External links

• Online calendar