Pro-Cuba Socialist Rattles Rich Costa Ricans on Eve of Election
- Jose Maria Villalta is polling fifth, but could make a runoff
- Election to take place Sunday with a likely runoff on April 3
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There are a dizzying number of candidates running in this Sunday’s presidential election in Costa Rica. Some 25 in all at last count.
They include school teachers, doctors, lawyers, a farmer and an evangelical singer, and, of course, career politicians. But one of them in particular, 44-year-old Jose Maria Villalta, has triggered trepidation among the moneyed class in the capital city of San Jose.