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Candidates kick off an unusual Election Day in Costa Rica

Polling stations across Costa Rica opened early Sunday for a presidential election that has split the country between an ultra-conservative evangelical preacher and a former Cabinet minister from the center-left ruling party.
The result will decide who leads the small Central American nation of five million people for the next four years.
Most recent polls suggest a neck-and-neck race between Fabricio Alvarado, a right-wing 43-year-old preacher, journalist and singer, and Carlos Alvarado (no relation), a 38-year-old former journalist who

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