After nearly two weeks of hand-counting over a million and a half ballots from the February 5 national elections, the Costa Rican Supreme Electoral Tribunal finally announced the results of the presidential vote. Former President Oscar Arias, of the National …
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Costa Rica’s Elections: Not the Cleanest Game Around
• Sunday’s election will underscore the fact that smug Costa Rica, once called the “Switzerland of Latin America,” is now almost indistinguishable from its disreputable Central American neighbors. • Voters hope to punish those whose venality gave their country a …
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Costa Rica’s Continued Fall from Grace
• Costa Rica is no “Switzerland of Latin America,” but merely one more banana republic. • The recently-initiated investigation of current Costa Rican president Abel Pacheco is the latest in a string of presidential corruption scandals in the country. • …
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Paradise Lost: Costa Rica Falls Victim to Corruption and Clientelism
The ‘Switzerland of the Western Hemisphere’ is being severely shaken by numerous allegations of political corruption. At least three former presidents have been accused of heavy involvement in bribery scandals, with possibly more to come if the 1970s and 80s …
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