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Totally Demilitarized Zone

  • January 8, 2013
  • By KIDS DISCOVER

Costa Rica is one of the few countries that has no standing army. President José Figueres Ferrer abolished the military in December 1948, but the Central American nation does have police and other security personnel to enforce the law.

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