14 August – Five officials of the national child welfare agency are arrested on suspicion of trafficking migrant children for adoption.[2]
21 October – The Tico Times reports that freedom of expression and press freedom in Costa Rica has grown more restricted, according to the Chapultepec Index of the Inter American Press Association. The country falls to tenth place on the index, from a ranking of seventh in 2023, and fifth in 2022.[3]
