Residents of Puriscal, Costa Rica sit along the sidewalk downtown. Oct. 7 in this rural town about an hour from San Jose, like most towns across the country, felt like any other Sunday. The only difference was that many of the residents went to the school to vote for or against CAFTA after church.
Here, a woman searches for her name in the voter list at the polling station Sunday in Puriscal. More than 1.4 million Costa Ricans turned out to vote for the free-trade agreement with the United States. That is more than 60 percent participation in the first referendum in the nation's history.
Puriscal resident Jose Adrian Delgado, 42, places his vote Sunday at a polling station in Puriscal. About 7,200 residents voted in this rural town outside of San Jose.
— Christopher
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