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2009, San José, Costa
Rica
Predictions For 2009
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Predictions For 2009
Inside Costa Rica wishes
its readers a very happy
and prosperous New Year.
Will we see great things
for Costa Rica in 2009?
What do you think? Send
us you 2009 predictions
about anything from
politics to sports to
the economy, even the
possibility of Costa
Rica being pothole free.
Send your list to
[email protected]
with "2009 Predictions"
in the subject line.
For now here is our
list of predictions:
1. A woman president.
Though the presidential
elections are not until
2010, this year will
decide who will run for
the top office. Our
money is on Laura
Chinchilla for the PLN
or Epsy Campbell for the
PAC.
2. Oscar Arias dumps his
current girlfriend and
decides to get back with
his ex wife, whom he is
still in love with.
3. Rodrigo Arias decides
he has had enough with
being the power behind
the scene and will make
a bid for the
presidency. However, he
will have to follow a
woman president first.
4. Former president,
Rafael Angel Calderón,
will be found not
innocent of all wrong
doing in the
Fischel-Caja scandal and
will make a bid for the
presidential nomination,
but won't get it.
5. Jose María Figueres
Olsen makes an
appearance in Costa
Rica. The reason for the
visit is to establish a
telecom competition to
ICE, now that
telecommunications in
the country is no longer
a monopoly. Remember,
Figueres is an expert in
telecommunications,
being paid a whopping
us$900.000 consulting
fee by the French
telecom Alcatel a few
years back.
6. 2009 will be a boom
year for Costa Rica. Or
a bust. Depends on your
point of view.
7. The dollar will
replace the colon as the
official currency.
Although it will take
some time for people to
catch on to the idea of
using dollars instead of
colones and the Central
Bank to open the vault
to all those dollars
they have stashed in the
basement somewhere.
8. Barak Obama will be
calling on Oscar Arias
on advice on how to run
a country.
9. In the same vain, the
Banco Central de Costa
Rica - Central Bank -
will be called upon by
the international
financial community to
run the rescue the world
economy.
10. Canadians decide to
stake patent claims for
gold mines for all areas
of Costa Rica. Why stop
at Crucitas, eh?
11. Chavez decides to
sell Costa Rica cheap
gas on the condition of
being granted asylum
when Venezuelans decide
they have enough of him,
which will be difficult
for him to honour, since
he will no longer have
the key to the country.
But Chavez is
resourceful and if
anyone can find a way
for the people never to
tire of him, he can.
12. Colombians will take
over the Costa Rican
banking system, turning
the whole financial
system into one big
giant pyramid, while the
Central Bank is busy
figuring out how to
manage the world
economy. See item number
9.
13. The Policia de
Transito will begin
offering consumer loans
to drivers to pay the
new fines.
14. Transito will also
open the biggest used
car lot in the country
with all the confiscated
vehicles from drunk
drivers, cornering the
used car market. The
only fly in this soup is
that Costa Ricans will
stop drinking and
driving.
15. ICE improves
cellular service and
is voted the best telecom
company in the country.
Since it is the only
telecom in the country,
the vote doesn't even
have to be counted. As
such it will start
planning to seek bidders
for a 4G cellular
network, since if and
when it introduces the
3G network, it will be
an old technology and go
the way of the TDMA.
16. INS - the state
insurer - will offer, for
the first time, real
insurance services and
with few overriding
clauses.
17. The Banco de Costa
Rica will relax security
measures and actually
begin treating customers
entering a branch like
people and not suspects.
18. Miguel Angel
Rodriguez will regain
his freedom, once
again, only to have them
taken away, once again.
19. The new road to
Caldera will run into
setbacks and
construction will be
delayed. Hey, the road
has been in the planning
and construction stage
for almost three
decades, what's a few
more years.
20. Inside Costa Rica
will stop making these
predictions. Until next
year! |
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