https://insidecostarica.com/2013/09/13/cartago-residents-declare-president-chinchilla-non-grata-for-celebration/ Costa Rica's Leading English Language News Source Tue, 28 Oct 2025 04:55:00 +0000 hourly 1 http://wordpress.org/?v=3.6.2 https://insidecostarica.com/2013/09/13/cartago-residents-declare-president-chinchilla-non-grata-for-celebration/#comment-5444 Ken Morris Fri, 13 Sep 2013 23:19:00 +0000 http://insidecostarica.com/?p=10925#comment-5444 From what I hear, the PLN has craftily and successfully managed to buy off most of the serious political opposition by handing their leaders government jobs and other spoils. The result is that while not many Ticos support the PLN, not many believe it will lose either. If something like this is true, it’s unfortunately unlikely that bottom-up uprisings will be very effective. Change needs to come from within the rival political parties, or more likely a coalition of them, and can only happen if they refuse the PLN’s offers in order to try to beat it outright. In practice, this may amount to asking people to turn down a cushy job in a PLN administration in favor of risking all to try to beat it, and I suspect that most people will take the cushy job.

]]> https://insidecostarica.com/2013/09/13/cartago-residents-declare-president-chinchilla-non-grata-for-celebration/#comment-5440 disgusted Fri, 13 Sep 2013 17:32:00 +0000 http://insidecostarica.com/?p=10925#comment-5440 Only way to change the bloated government is from the bottom up. I am looking for some Costarricense to rise above show leadership and fairness. The PLN and all other parties seem cut from the same cloth what can I get from the people. Lady Laura has been ineffective , feckless and Oscar Arias said, she lacks intellect for understand is limited… is so many words. Well if you think Johnny from the same PLN going to be different? I don’t think so either.

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