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Weekly Report - 25 January 2007
COSTA RICA: Arias wins fast track for Cafta-DR
Cafta-DR will dominate the legislative agenda in Costa Rica for the next two months after the ruling Partido Liberación National (PLN) managed to muster sufficient support in congress to fix a time limit to the debate. Ironically this comes at a time when the Bush administration is facing mounting opposition from a Democrat-controlled Congress to renegotiate FTAs. Although Cafta-DR has already been ratified by the US Congress, Ottón Solís, the leader of the main opposition Partido Acción Ciudadana (PAC), travelled to Washington to meet congressmen and show that Cafta-DR is "inappropriate".
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