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Weekly Report - 04 September 2014 (WR-14-35)
COSTA RICA: Solís’s sincerity complicates task ahead
President Luis Guillermo Solís painted a bleak picture of institutional breakdown, corruption and inefficiency in Costa Rica during a speech on 28 August to mark the completion of his first 100 days in office. Solís, of the centre-left Partido Acción Ciudadana (PAC), delivered a decidedly downbeat address which focused far less on his achievements to date than on the problems he inherited and the scale of the challenge he faces to remedy them. The difficulty he faces is that he lacks firm allies in the 57-seat legislative assembly, where the PAC controls a mere 13 seats and is itself divided, with party founder Ottón Solís launching some withering attacks on his namesake.
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