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Weekly Report - 14 September 2004

COSTA RICA: Finance minister & chief of staff trigger cabinet crisis

President Abel Pacheco insists that what has happened to his cabinet since the end of August is not a crisis. Almost everyone else considers that the resignation of five ministers, including most of the economic team and the President's right-hand man, is not only a crisis but a major one even by the standards of the Pacheco administration, which had already seen off eight ministers since it took office in May 2002.

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