ACOGE | Asociacin Costarricense de Gerentes de Empresas (Costa Rican Association of Business Managers) |
ANAVI | Asociacin Nacional de Vivienda (National Association for Housing) |
ANDE | Asociacin Nacional de Educadores (National Association of Teachers) |
ANFE | Asociacin Nacional de Fomento de la Empresa (National Association for the Promotion of Enterprise) |
APRA | Alianza Popular Revolucionaria Americana (American Popular Revolutionary Alliance) |
APSE | Asociacin de Profesores de Segunda Enseanza (National High School Teachers Association) |
CACM | Central American Common Market (Mercado Comn Centroamericano) |
CATD | Confederacin Autntica de Trabajadores Democrticos (Authentic Confederation of Democratic Workers) |
CCSS | Caja Costarricense de Seguro Social (Costa Rican Social Security Institute) |
CCTD | Confederacin Costarricense de Trabajadores Democrticos (Costa Rican Confederation of Democratic Workers) |
CCTR | Confederacin de Trabajadores de Costa Rica (Confederation of Workers of Costa Rica) |
CEDAL | Centro de Estudios Democrticos de Amrica Latina (Latin American Center for Democratic Studies) |
CEPAS | Centro de Estudios para la Accin Social (Center for Studies of Social Action) |
CGT | Confederacin General de Trabajadores (General Confederation of Workers) |
CIA | U.S. Central Intelligence Agency |
CNP | Consejo Nacional de Produccin (National Production Council) |
CNT | Confederacin Nacional de Trabajadores (National Workers Confederation) |
CODESA | Corporacin Costarricense de Desarrollo (Costa Rican Development Corporation) |
CONAI | Comisin Nacional de Asuntos Indgenas (National Commission for Indian Affairs) |
COPAN | Comit Patritico Nacional (National Patriotic Committee) |
CPT | Consejo Permanente de los Trabajadores (Permanent Council of Workers) |
CSJ | Supreme Court of Justice (Corte Supremo de Justicia) |
CSUCA | Consejo Superior Universitario de Centro America (Superior University Council of Central America) |
CTCR | Confederacin de Trabajadores de Costa Rica (Confederation of Costa Rican Workers) |
CUT | Confederacin Unitaria de Trabajadores (Unitary Confederation of Workers) |
DINADECO | Direccin Nacional de Desarrollo de la Comunidad (National Community Development Directorate) |
EDUCA | Editorial Universitaria Centroamericana (Central American University Press) |
EEC | European Economic Community |
FCV | Frente Costarricense de Vivienda (Costa Rican Front for Housing) |
FDV | Frente Democrtica de Vivienda (Democratic Front for Housing) |
FLACSO | Facultad Latinoamericano de Cincias Sociales (Latin American Social Science Faculty) |
FMLN | Frente Farabundo Mart para la Liberacin Nacional (Farabundo Mart National Liberation Front) |
FSLN | Frente Sandinista de Liberacin Nacional (Sandinista National Liberation Front) |
GATT | General Agreement on Tariffs and Trade |
GCE | Gran Consejo Electoral (Grand Electoral Council) |
GDP | Gross domestic product |
GNP | Gross national product |
IADB | Inter-American Development Bank |
ICE | Instituto Costarricense de Electricidad (Costa Rican Electrical Institute) |
IDA | Instituto de Desarrollo Agrario (Institute of Agrarian Development) |
IMF | International Monetary Fund |
INVU | Instituto Nacional de Vivienda y Urbanismo (National Urbanization and Housing Institute) |
ISI | Import substitution industrialization |
ITAC | Instituto Teolgico de America Central (Central American Theological Institute) |
ITCO | Instituto de Tierras y Colonizacin (Institute of Land and Colonization) |
MCRL | Movimiento Costa Rica Libre (Free Costa Rica Movement) |
NAFTA | North American Free Trade Agreement |
OAS | Organization of American States |
OIJ | Judicial Investigation Organism (Organismo de Investigaciones Judiciales) |
OPEN | Organizacin para Emergencias Nacionales (Organization for National Emergencies) |
PAE | Programa de ajuste estructural (structural adjustment program) |
PLN | Partido de Liberacin Nacional (National Liberation Party) |
PPU | Partido Pueblo Unido (United Peoples Party) |
PR | Partido Reformista (Reformist Party) |
PUN | Partido Unin Nacional (National Union Party) |
PUSC | Partido Unidad Social Cristiana (Social Christian Unity Party |
PVP | Partido Vanguardia Popular (Popular Vanguard Party) |
RECOPE | Refinadora Costarricense de Petroleo (Costa Rican Petroleum Refinery) |
SES | Socioeconomic status |
SINART | Sistema Nacional de Radio y Televisin (National System of Radio and Television) |
TNE | Tribunal Nacional Electoral (National Electoral Tribunal) |
TSE | Tribunal Supremo de Elecciones (Supreme Electoral Tribunal |
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