Costa Rica’s president-elect calls victory a ‘revolution’

By JAVIER CÓRDOBA
Associated Press

SAN JOSE, Costa Rica (AP) — Costa Rica’s president-elect Rodrigo Chaves has said that his victory a day earlier was a “revolution.” Chaves, a conservative former World Bank economist and briefly finance minister in the outgoing administration of Carlos Alvarado, had cast himself as the outsider in the race since he was representing the relatively new Social Democratic Progress Party, which has never held public office at any level. It was also a position he could probably only have taken against the man embodying Costa Rica’s establishment: José María Figueres, a former president and son of a three-time president.