What will the next 2 years bring?

• The everyday citizen should not be financing the world’s most powerful companies. 

A tense environment for Chinchilla’s 2nd term

• The Executive Branch needs to establish a strategy for political dialogue in order to increase the number of votes it can count on in the assembly. 

Cornering commodities markets

• Theory assumes that for every seller there is a buyer who actually needs his product, and that there exists no coalition of buyers who, owning the great majority of the product concerned, agree to withhold their offers until the seller, in desperation, consents to an...

Southern Zone airport: Integrated planning?

• An international airport could be used as an engine of development to support all economic and geographical sectors in the entire region. 

Inequality: Democracy’s credibility gap

• Latin America is known to have among the highest income inequality in the world with wealth largely concentrated in the hands of a small segment of the population. 

Costa Rica’s battle against big tobacco

• Like everywhere else, tobacco companies, along with their allied lawmakers and the Chamber of Restaurants, are also arguing in the media that an increase in cigarette taxes will cause an increase in smuggled cigarettes, and smuggled cigarettes already repre...

Summit of the Americas: Is it worth it?

• The Summit of the Americas is the only forum that brings together the heads of state and government of the countries of the Organization of American States. The summit, like the Panama Canal, represents a vital, strategic path of connection.

A reflection on crimes against humanity

• The coming to power of retired Guatemalan Gen. Otto Pérez Molina at the same time that ex-dictator and retired Gen. Efraín Ríos Montt was finally charged in the courts with crimes against humanity and acts of genocide does not bode well.

The Río San Juan and The Hague

• Many of the arguments presented by both countries since October 2010, when Nicaragua began dredging the river, remind legal experts of another case between two Latin American countries: Argentina and Uruguay.

Nuclear disarmament is in our blood

• The global political landscape was a catalyst for the political will inherent in the Treaty of Tlatelolco, which not only was limited to freeing the region of the destructive power of these types of weapons, but also the world.