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Events in the year 2022 in Costa Rica.
Incumbents
- President: Rodrigo Chaves Robles
- First Vice President: Stephan Brunner
- Second Vice President: Mary Munive
Events
- Ongoing – COVID-19 pandemic in Costa Rica
- February 6 – 2022 Costa Rican general election
- February 10 – Costa Rican president Carlos Alvarado Quesada tests positive for COVID-19.
- April 3 – Rodrigo Chaves Robles is elected President of Costa Rica after voters in Costa Rica head to the polls to vote in the second round.
- April 7 – A DHL Boeing 757-200 cargo plane breaks into two parts after making an emergency landing at the Juan Santamaría International Airport in San José, Costa Rica. No one is injured.
- May 31 – A major cyberattack hits the Costa Rican Social Security Fund, forcing the ministry to shut down its digital database and endangering the country's healthcare system.
- June 30 – Hurricane watches are issued for Nicaragua and Costa Rica as Potential Tropical Cyclone Two is expected to form into Tropical Storm Bonnie in the coming hours.
- July 2 – Tropical Storm Bonnie: Tropical Storm Bonnie makes landfall near the Costa Rica–Nicaragua border. The storm subsequently crosses over from the Atlantic basin to the Pacific basin, becoming the first storm to do so since Hurricane Otto in 2016. One person is reported missing in Trinidad and Tobago.
- July 8 – Costa Rican President Rodrigo Chaves Robles says that his country will apply to join the Pacific Alliance.
Deaths
- January 4 – Javier Astúa, 53, footballer.
- August 20 – Román Solís Zelaya, 68, jurist.
- November 15 – José León Sánchez, 93, novelist.
- December 22 – Julieta Pinto, 101, educator and writer.
See also
References
- "Costa Rica votes in presidential election with no clear favourite". www.aljazeera.com. Retrieved 2022-09-08.
- "Costa Rican president tests positive for COVID-19". www.aa.com.tr. Retrieved 2022-09-08.
- Oré, Diego; Murillo, Alvaro; Oré, Diego (2022-04-04). "Costa Rica elects maverick Chaves as president in break with establishment". Reuters. Retrieved 2022-09-08.
- Murillo, Alvaro (2022-04-08). "Costa Rica airport reopens after DHL plane skids off runway in emergency landing". Reuters. Retrieved 2022-09-08.
- Murillo, Alvaro (2022-05-31). "Latest cyberattack in Costa Rica targets hospital system". Reuters. Retrieved 2022-09-08.
- Andrew Dockery. "FIRST ALERT: Hurricane Watch issued for Central America, Bonnie expected to form Thursday". www.wmbfnews.com. Retrieved 2022-09-08.
- "Tropical Storm BONNIE". www.nhc.noaa.gov. Retrieved 2022-09-08.
- "Costa Rica's Chaves launches Pacific Alliance trade push". TODAY. Retrieved 2022-09-08.
- Castillo, Luis Felipe (2022-01-04). "Fallece recordado exjugador del fútbol nacional: Javier Astúa Araya". AMPrensa.com (in Spanish). Retrieved 2022-09-08.
- "Muere el magistrado Román Solís Zelaya a sus 68 años". www.larepublica.net (in Spanish). Retrieved 2022-09-08.
- "Falleció el escritor costarricense José León Sánchez". Diario Digital Nuestro País (in Spanish). 2022-11-16. Retrieved 2023-01-19.
- "Muere Julieta Pinto, escritora costarricense, a los 101 años". La Nación (in Spanish). 22 December 2022. Retrieved 2023-01-19.
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