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Weekly Report - 5 October 2004
COSTA RICA: Both big parties caught in corruption scandals
Both of Costa Rica's leading political parties, the ruling Partido Unidad Social Cristiana (PUSC) and the opposition Partido Liberación Nacional (PLN), as well as President Abel Pacheco and two of his predecessors, Miguel Angel Rodríguez and Rafael Angel Calderón, have been implicated over the past week in major corruption scandals. This has taken the credibility of politicians and parties, already low, to new depths.
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