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Caribbean & Central America - September 2017 (ISSN 1741-4458)
COSTA RICA: Solís forced to testify in cement case
Not since 2002 had a Costa Rican head of state been summoned to testify before the legislative assembly, but that was the fate of President Luis Guillermo Solís on 4 September. While then-president Abel Pacheco (2000-2006) appeared before a congressional investigative commission over campaign financing in 2002, Solís faced questions relating to alleged irregularities in the award of a US$20m loan by the state Banco de Costa Rica (BCR) to the Costa Rican subsidiary of the Chinese cement exporter Sinocem. Solís’s testimony took place days after the government trade promotion agency Procomer reported a huge surge in cement imports in the last two years, the vast majority from China.
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