{"id":9935,"date":"2014-03-24T15:08:14","date_gmt":"2014-03-24T20:08:14","guid":{"rendered":"http:\/\/panamaadvisoryinternationalgroup.com\/blog\/?p=9935"},"modified":"2014-03-24T15:08:14","modified_gmt":"2014-03-24T20:08:14","slug":"costa-rica-threatened-by-politics","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/panamaadvisoryinternationalgroup.com\/blog\/costa-rica-threatened-by-politics\/","title":{"rendered":"Costa Rica threatened by Politics"},"content":{"rendered":"<p><a href=\"http:\/\/panamaadvisoryinternationalgroup.com\/blog\/wp-content\/uploads\/2014\/03\/costa-rica-elections.jpg\"><img loading=\"lazy\" decoding=\"async\" class=\"alignnone size-full wp-image-9936\" title=\"costa rica elections\" src=\"http:\/\/panamaadvisoryinternationalgroup.com\/blog\/wp-content\/uploads\/2014\/03\/costa-rica-elections.jpg\" alt=\"\" width=\"613\" height=\"303\" \/><\/a><\/p>\n<p>Lack of clear leadership, internal chaos in the main <span class=\"hlink\">political<\/span> parties and parliamentary fragmentation are threatening Costa Rica&#8217;s business climate.<\/p>\n<p class=\"description\">Contradictory statements over the <span class=\"hlink\">legal certainty<\/span> of the project for a mega <span class=\"hlink\">container<\/span> <span class=\"hlink\">port<\/span> in Moin ($1 billion), made by the very probable next president of Costa  Rica, Luis Guillermo Solis, and the founder of his party (Citizen  Action) and deputy chief of the legislative group, Otton Solis have  generated understandable alarm in the business community.<\/p>\n<p>The Costa Rican-North American Chamber of Commerce (AmCham) expressed  its concerns, and its leader, Humberto Pacheco, said: &#8220;We believe that  the candidate (<span class=\"hlink\">Luis Guillermo Sol\u00eds<\/span>)  is very good, but we have concerns especially over the extreme wing  that exists in the Party, which is still at this point contradicting  their candidate with public demonstrations such as those you heard. &#8221;<\/p>\n<p>While the presidential candidate had come down on the side of respecting the <span class=\"hlink\">concession<\/span> <span class=\"hlink\">contract<\/span> with the Dutch company <span class=\"hlink\">APM Terminals<\/span>,  specifically noting that there would not be a review of that  concession, the elected deputy Oton Solis expressed his intention to  scrutinise it, ie &#8220;spy , inquire, search with diligence and care, and go  through something in order to find something hidden. &#8221; (Definition by  the Royal Spanish Academy).<\/p>\n<p class=\"link_source\">Source: Prensa.com and Nacion.com<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>Lack of clear leadership, internal chaos in the main political parties and parliamentary fragmentation are threatening Costa 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