... process during 1986 and 1987. The culmination of Costa Rica's efforts, which brought differing sides in Central America to the negotiating table, was the Nobel Peace Prize awarded to President Oscar Arias in 1987. The first encounters with the "outside" world, or the Old World, as we know it, was in 1502, when Christopher Columbus sought shelter from a storm on his ... ...

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