https://insidecostarica.com/2013/10/14/6-years-continue-struggle-fta-united-states/ 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/2013/10/14/6-years-continue-struggle-fta-united-states/#comment-5702 Ken Morris Mon, 14 Oct 2013 23:15:00 +0000 http://insidecostarica.com/?p=11598#comment-5702 Yeah, the vote was wrongly influenced (though I wouldn’t quite say “rigged”) but what disturbs me is how successful it was in demolishing the left and center-left. 30 demonstrators is nothing, and while I don’t mind the opposition revisiting the treaty, I think it needs to move on to a more comprehensive contemporary agenda. The implosion of the left is what allowed the PLN to become the dominant institutionalized party, and I don’t see vigorous challenges to it coming from the right.

]]> https://insidecostarica.com/2013/10/14/6-years-continue-struggle-fta-united-states/#comment-5696 Oliver Wendell Holmes Mon, 14 Oct 2013 18:00:00 +0000 http://insidecostarica.com/?p=11598#comment-5696 The voting was so obviously rigged. To use a famous quote from a bygone TV show; Don Oscar, “you have some’splaining to do!”

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