$5.000 To Have Dinner With Arias
Want to have dinner with former president and Nobel prize winner Dr. Óscar Arias Sánchez who is also the presidential candidate for the Partido Liberacion Nacional (PLN) party for the 2006 bid for the presidential chair?

Well, then be prepared to shell out us$5.000 a plate.

That is the cost per person in a fund raising dinner that is being planned by the green and white party and defended by campaign manager, Rodrigo Arias, brother of the presidential candidate, following criticism.

The main critic of this type of fundraising is the head of the Partido Acción Ciudadana (PAC), Martha Zamora, who is questioning the legality of the activity and questioning the recent revelation of a campaign contribution by former tourism minister, Rubén Pacheco, who is also an advisor to the current government and under fire over irregularities over his Papagayo project in Guanacaste.

For $5.000, the donor gets to participate in a small dinner party with the presidential candidate and support the "Arista" movement.

Rodrigo is empathic that making a donation and having dinner with Oscar doesn't mean we will anyone a political favour. "The dinner is simply a fundraising event", said Rodrigo Arias.