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This research is an analysis of the situation of people with disabilities in Costa Rica, in the past and present, based on the data available from 1821 to this day, referring to the institutional framework that has been created for the attention of this particular sector of the population. The sources that will be used for this purpose are going to be census data, past and current regulations and available information of the institutions and organism present about institutional structures and agencies concerning the situation of people with disabilities. The main discovery refers to the importance of the previous institutional path in the field of disability within the country, which today allows it to sustain the achievements, despite the adjustments period in the country

In order to carry out a first approach to the dynamics of political mobilization associated with the arrival and consolidation of digital platforms in national contexts, this article seeks to characterize the field of protest against lean platforms, in terms of the repertoires, demands and modalities of collective action, this from the construction of a database for the case of Costa Rica under the methodology of Protest Event Analysis (PEA) and Political Claims Analysis (PCA). The results of the descriptive statistical analysis allow us to observe that the contentious dynamics has gone from being totally dominated by the traditional taxi driver sector, to showing the entry of new actors such as platform workers and some civil society groups that have come to complicate the panorama of action for the Costa Rican government in terms of regulation and, therefore, to incorporate new demands and decision arenas within the political-social field.