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Weekly Report - 10 February 2011 (WR-11-06)
COSTA RICA: Fiscal reform founders on Arias case
When President Laura Chinchilla became the first female to win
election in Costa Rica's history exactly one year ago, she said that one of her
top priorities would be a fiscal reform bill because “first world services
require paying first world taxes". She also maintained that she would not be in
the shadow of the Arias brothers. The fiscal reform bill is now mired in
congress - and a big part of the reason for this is that the bulk of deputies in
the ruling Partido Liberación Nacional (PLN) owe allegiance not to Chinchilla
but to her predecessor Óscar Arias and his brother (and her would-be successor)
Rodrigo Arias.
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