Costa Rican authorities arrested a suspect on 20 June 2026 over an alleged death threat against President Rodrigo Chaves Robles, the second such incident since January; InSight Crime has documented what it calls Costa Rica's worst narco corruption scandal, with judges, prosecutors, and police among officials bribed or threatened by criminal networks

The IMF's 2026 Article IV mission concluded on 10 March 2026 that Costa Rica's public debt remains on a downward track toward 54% of gross domestic product by 2035, while warning that the national pension fund and health insurer face long-term funding gaps and that export growth concentrated in free-trade-zone multinationals is exposed to US tariff shifts

A Chaves-aligned conservative wins outright with 48.5% and a single-party legislative majority, the first since 1990