MEXICO CITY (Reuters) – Costa Rica’s center-left presidential hopeful Carlos Alvarado Quesada took an insurmountable lead in a Sunday presidential runoff, winning 61 percent of the vote in a race that exposed deep divisions in the country over religion.
Costa Rica’s electoral council announced the preliminary result with 91 percent of polling stations counted.
(Reporting by David Alire Garcia; Editing by Frank Jack Daniel)