The group that runs Costa Rica's coffee industry sacked its executive director Gabriel Gonzalez just three months after he took the post, an official said on Friday.
Gonzalez, a former plastics executive, was only the third head of the government-run Costa Rican Coffee Institute, or ICAFE, since 1990 and its first-ever from outside the coffee industry.
The executive director is charged with ensuring that income from coffee sales is distributed among producers, processors and exporters according to the country's highly-regulated 1962 Coffee Law.