On September 12, 2011 the Contentious Administrative Court of Costa Rican ruled that the ancestral lands of the Bribri people of the Keköldi Reserve must be returned. The Bribri live in the Talamanca Canton in Limón Province of Costa Rica and number between 11,000-35,000 people. Keköldi Reserve was created in 1977 on the Caribbean coast, after non-Indigenous groups began settling on the land. International Labor Organization’s Convention 169, which Costa Rica ratified in 1993, was referenced in the decision. Read more here.
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