Football, Costa Rica and Sri-Lanka-Comparison

Football, Costa Rica and Sri-Lanka-Comparison

1. Small Latin American Country.
Small Indian Ocean Country.

2. Peaceful from 1949 after the Civil War (against the Army)
Many bloody insurgencies and Civil wars.

3. No Army
A big Army for a small nation.

4. In quarter final in world cup football
No Asian country in the qualifiers.

Wold champions in limited over in 1996.

5. 14 peaceful presidential elections
Most violent elections of all.
Soon after the election the opposing candidate sent to prison on flimsy grounds.


I hope Costa Rica wins against Holland / Netherlands and play the semi-final.

Costa Rica in the 20th Century

Historically, Costa Rica has generally enjoyed greater peace and more consistent political stability compared with many of its fellow Latin American nations.
Since the late 19th century, however, Costa Rica has experienced two significant periods of violence. In 1917–19, General Federico Tinoco Granados ruled as a military dictator until he was overthrown and forced into exile.
The unpopularity of Tinoco's regime led, after he was overthrown, to a considerable decline in the size, wealth, and political influence of the Costa Rican military.
In 1948, José Figueres Ferrer led an armed uprising in the wake of a disputed presidential election between the previous president Rafael Ángel Calderón Guardia (he served as president between 1940 and 1944) and Otilio Ulate Blanco.
With more than 2,000 dead, the resulting 44-day Costa Rican Civil War was the bloodiest event in Costa Rica during the 20th century.
The victorious rebels formed a government junta that abolished the military altogether, and oversaw the drafting of a new constitution by a democratically elected assembly.
Having enacted these reforms, the junta relinquished its power on November 8, 1949, to the new democratic government.
After the coup d'état, Figueres became a national hero, winning the country's first democratic election under the new constitution in 1953. Since then, Costa Rica has held 14 presidential elections, the latest in 2014.
All of them have been widely regarded by the international community as peaceful and transparent.
With uninterrupted democracy dating back to at least 1948, the country is the most stable in the region.