Civil Guard (Spanish: Guardia Civil) of Costa Rica was a gendarmerie type force responsible for both limited national defense and internal security missions.
The Guardia Civil was the largest branch of the Fuerza Pública (Public Force) and was responsible for the defense of the nation in addition to its law enforcement duties.
The number of initial troops was between 15,000 and 10,000 Civil Guards. At the beginning of the 90s, the Civil Guard had more than 27,000 active troops
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CivilGuard (Spanish: Guardia Civil) of Costa Rica was a gendarmerie type force responsible for both limited national defense and internal security missions...
The CostaRicanCivil War took place from 12 March to 24 April 1948 (44 days). The conflict began after the Legislative Assembly of Costa Rica, dominated...
President José Figueres Ferrer of Costa Rica abolished the military of Costa Rica after achieving victory in the CostaRicanCivil War that year. In a ceremony...
Argentinian police force Guardia Civil, the Spanish gendarmerie CostaRicanCivilGuard, a former gendarmerie CivilGuard (Peru), a gendarmery Guardia de...
is required to be president or vice president of the Republic: To be CostaRican by birth and a citizen in exercise; To have secular status; To be older...
are of full or partial Puerto Rican descent. The government of Puerto Rico has been issuing "Certificates of Puerto Rican Citizenship" to anyone born in...
formation of a successor force did not begin until 1984. The Cape Verde Coast Guard received its first aircraft in November 1992; its actual date of formation...
is the U.S. Army at Ft Buchanan, the Puerto Rican Army and Air National Guards, and the U.S. Coast Guard. Protests over the noise of bombing practice...
The Puerto Rican Nationalist Party insurgency was a series of coordinated insurrections for the secession of Puerto Rico led by the president of the Puerto...
Huhn reports that, "In a public opinion poll in 2011, 45 percent of CostaRican respondents said that crime and insecurity were the country’s biggest...
Coast Guard Service, National Police School, Reserve of the Public Force and the Air Surveillance Service, itself a successor of the CostaRican Air Force...
Louis. During the mid-19th century, Puerto Ricans residing in the United States fought in the American Civil War. In the 1800s, the quest for Latin American...
where he was a member of Fi Sigma Alfa Hispanic fraternity. He married CostaRican Isabel Urcuyo on 9 June 1947, and they had seven children together. Following...
imposed on CostaRican trade in goods, except by mutual agreement. A dispute emerged in 1998 when Nicaragua forbade the transit of CostaRican policemen...
Puerto Rico (Spanish: Partido Nacionalista de Puerto Rico, PNPR) is a Puerto Rican political party founded on September 17, 1922, in San Juan, Puerto Rico...
of the flag of Puerto Rico has been a symbol of Puerto Rican independence, resistance, and civil disobedience. The origin of the flag traces back to the...
"second front" on Nicaragua's Atlantic coast and CostaRican border. [citation needed] With the civil war opening up cracks in the national revolutionary...
transferred to the Coast Guard Yard in Baltimore, Maryland for disposal. On October 13, 2017, Roanoke Island was transferred to Costa Rica. After refitting...
role in Puerto Rican society by contributing to the establishment of the University of Puerto Rico, women's suffrage, women's rights, civil rights, and to...
Puerto Ricans in the continental United States and Hawaii, including people born in the United States proper of Puerto Rican descent and Puerto Ricans who...
captured from the Chinese Nationalist Army during the Chinese Civil War. Chile Colombia Costa Rica Czechoslovakia Dominican Republic Dutch East Indies...
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brought their wives, while others married Puerto Rican women, and today there are many Puerto Rican families with Portuguese last names. The smallest...