The populist candidate Luis Guillermo Solís wins Costa Rica's presidency in a landslide, after his opponent threw in the towel a month ago.
Category: Latin America
Election news from around the world
This week in our semi-regular roundup: news from Serbia, Slovakia, El Salvador, Maldives and Algeria.
A tale of two elections
Very different elections in El Salvador and North Korea, yet each in its way signals the triumph of democracy.
A Central American cliffhanger
A former guerrilla leader has a wafer-thin lead as El Salvador's presidential election turns out to be a quite unexpected cliffhanger.
Two runoffs in Central America
Results from El Salvador and Costa Rica show two presidential runoffs on the way, although one is pretty much a foregone conclusion.
Election preview: Costa Rica and El Salvador
Incumbent parties are favored to win on Sunday in both Costa Rica and El Salvador, but both will be interesting contests.
Another president-for-life looms for Nicaragua
President Daniel Ortega of Nicaragua doesn't want to give up the job that he first held in the 1980s.
US steps slowly back from Cuba sanctions
Talks between the United States and Cuba, a rare event in themselves, have proceeded well. There seems to be a dawning realisation that sanctions have outlived their relevance.
The electoral top ten for 2013
A review of the year's most interesting elections and whether they show us any general trends.
No surprises in Chile
The roster of big elections for the year comes to an end with a landslide victory in Chile for the centre-left.
