Exchange: Getting Costa Rica Right

Issue Date April 2006
Volume 17
Issue 2
Page Numbers 161-164
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Costa Rica’s recent political travails are due not to collusion between the two major parties but to the increasing difficulty of reaching and implementing interparty agreements.

About the Author

Miguel Angel Rodríguez Echeverría served as president of Costa Rica from 1998 to 2002, having been elected on the ticket of the Social Christian Unity Party. He was secretary-general of the Organization of American States from June to October 2004.

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