[7] During the interwar period the NSDAP/AO tried the nazification of the Costa Rican German community,[10][11] which was led by engineer Max Effinger, who would be a minister in Cortes' cabinet.
[7] The outbreak of the Costa Rican Civil War after the 1948 election in which Otilio Ulate was the alleged winner split the country in two sides; opponents and supporters of the government.
The country developed a two-party system between the center-left Figueristas and center-right Calderonistas and in general avoided the extremes with both far-left and far-right parties receiving testimonial results.
During the Cold War period the far-right Free Costa Rica Movement was born and active, with a strong paramilitary anti-leftist organization.
[16] On the 2010–2014 period, then deputy Manrique Oviedo of the Citizens' Action Party (although he later defected to National Restoration) accused then Vice President Luis Liberman of using his influence for benefiting a fellow Jew.
[17] And in 2019 anti-establishment right-wing candidate Juan Diego Castro generated uproar due to his video making accusation against businessman and newspaper owner Leonel Baruch, of Jewish origin, calling him "evil banker" and mocking the Holocaust.
[18] Anti-semitic comments have been reported in social media including against Eliécer Feinzaig, president of the Liberal Progressive Party and of Jewish religion.
[25][26] In 2015 the Simon Wiesenthal Center denounced that shops selling Holocaust denial literature and Nazi symbols existed in San José.
[27] In 2018 an anti-immigration rally was controversial due to the presence of neo-Nazis in it using Swastikas and Nazi salutes and administrating far-right Facebook pages that spread xenophobic material and Fake news.