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Caribbean & Central America - April 2011 (ISSN 1741-4458)

COSTA RICA: Chinchilla, stood up by her own party

Only 11 months into her term, President Laura Chinchilla appears to be facing increasing problems; the challenges to her authority, however, are coming not from the opposition but from within her own party, the ruling Partido Liberación Nacional (PLN). If the 1 April resignation of Marco Vargas, minister of the presidency, whose role was to liaise between the executive and the legislative branch (including the PLN representatives), was not a strong enough signal that the communication between the two branches of government was breaking down, the fact that on 4 April, 11 of the 24 PLN assembly members stood Chinchilla up for lunch surely must have made the point clear.

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