Why Costa Rica Is Winning Central America

Thank you for sponsoring! Get free shipping and 365 day returns at www.quince.com/geoff Read the article: https://geographicgeoff.substack.com 🌳 Find me elsewhere: https://linktr.ee/geographybygeoff 🗺️ Map store: https://geoffxmuirway.com/ Costa Rica has become a HUGE success story for Central American countries. It has a stable, long lasting democracy, a thriving tourism industry, a growing middle class, and better infrastructure than most other countries in the world. But Costa Rica's situation is markedly different from its northern neighbors who have experienced decades of authoritarian rule, revolutions and rebellions, and foreign interference. So why has Costa Rica been so successful, and why haven't its neighbors been able to replicate it success? In this video, we'll cover the unique Central American geography that binds these four countries together, how each was colonized, settled and exploited by Spain, and why Costa Rica managed to carve a different path than the other three countries endured during the mid 1900s. -- Stock footage and music acquired from www.envato.com, www.storyblocks.com and videvo.net. If you think there's been an error in using a video clip, please contact me. This has been a production of Sound Bight Media (soundbight.com)