POLITICS
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Uncertainty Due to Wave of Arrests
Jun-16-21 | In Nicaragua, following the arrests of political and business leaders, uncertainty has increased after local authorities arrested Luis Alberto Rivas Anduray, Executive President of Banpro.
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Release of Political Prisoners Demanded
Jun-9-21 | In Nicaragua, following the arrest of four presidential pre-candidates and the detention of business leader Jose Adan Aguerri, the productive sector demands the release of political prisoners and advocates for the government to commit itself to grant all democratic guarantees.
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Electoral Process Is Losing Democratic Viability
Jun-7-21 | After the arrest of presidential pre-candidates Cristiana Chamorro and Arturo Cruz in Nicaragua, the business sector questions the "democratic viability of a free, fair, competitive and transparent electoral process".
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Mortal Blow to the Electoral System
Jun-2-21 | After an arrest warrant was issued against Cristiana Chamorro Barrios, independent presidential pre-candidate in Nicaragua, the business sector believes that it is "evidence of the government's unwillingness to carry out free, fair, transparent, competitive and supervised elections."
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New Northern Winds for Central America
Jan-20-21 | Strengthening trade between the US and the region, fighting corruption in the Northern Triangle and reducing illegal migration flows, are some of the axes on which Joe Biden, the US president who has been sworn in, is expected to focus.
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Geopolitics and the Future of Central America
Nov-5-20 | The next U.S. president is not yet known, but in the region it is expected that in an eventual new Trump administration, the focus will be on the recovery of the U.S. economy, while an eventual Biden administration would focus on countering corruption and illegal migration.
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Oil, Politics, and Realism
Jul-5-17 | Alba Petróleos de El Salvador, daughter company of PDVSA, is no longer importing from Venezuela the fuel it sells in the country, doing so instead from the United States.
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Central America, Taiwan, Trump?
Jan-19-17 | The attendance of the president of the rebellious Chinese island to the inauguration of President Ortega and visits to the countries of northern Central America could have profound geopolitical significance.
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Why Trump
Nov-9-16 | The choice of Donald Trump as the 45th President of the United States is another clear example of how the deterioration of liberal democracies enlightens the way for the emergence of authoritarian leaders.
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A proposal to reduce Learning and increase Bureaucracy
Apr-20-16 | The real entrepreneurs and CEOs do not need a state official, who will never be an entrepreneur, to tell them how to run a company and increase revenues.
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Mutation and Death of Democracy?
Sep-25-15 | Ineptocracy: A government system where the least capable to govern are elected by the least capable of producing, and where the members of society least likely to sustain themselves or succeed, are rewarded with goods and services paid for by the diminishing number of producers.
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Unacceptable Threat by a Trade Union Leader
Sep-9-15 | The private companies should have to consider the risk posed to Costa Rica's business climate by the excesses of state union leaders.
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The "Blah Blah Blah" of Former President Mujica
Aug-31-15 | A scruffy old man is running around America preaching the same disconnection with the real world that made him a complete failure as the president of Uruguay.
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Win-Win: A Ritual in Any Business Proposal
Aug-18-15 | In most cases, whoever uses this phrase is thinking only in their own gain, and not in the benefit of the other, just as China is doing while promising aid to Costa Rica.
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Luis Alberto Moreno's teetotum
Aug-13-15 | The President of the IADB has advised Costa Rica to make a tax reform to raise taxes arguing that today the teetotum indicates "everyone gives".