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Community Leaders Analyze Barriers To
Development in Guanacaste
(InfoWebPress) – Officials with political
and civil society groups in Guanacaste met
to speak about the development model that
would better suit the province as part of
the First Costa Rican Idea Generation Day of
the XXI Century, which took place in Liberia
and was organized by the National University
(UNA).
“We need to guanacastequizar (make
Guanacaste-like) our development model, for
which it is necessary to employ of what we
have in Guanacaste and figure out how to
make it reach the entire population,”
Guanacaste writer Marco Tulio Gardela said
at the event, which was held at a local
hotel. “We need a model that doesn’t revolve
around money and that is decentralized,
backed up by a sort of Guanacaste
development corporation that would lead it.”
The activity’s goal was to rescue a culture
centered around the generation of new ideas
that would be engines of change and
challenges for Costa Rica — reason for which
organizers hope various sectors in the
country would enthusiastically participate
in this process.
At the Liberia event, participants agreed
that there is a need for the country’s
regions to be protagonists of their own
history, since what has so far dominated the
landscape of Costa Rica’s development is a
type of “centralism” emanating from the
Central Valley, where the capital of San
Jose and most of the country’s larges cities
are located. This “centralism,” they said,
tends to ignore how people in other regions
would like their own development to be.
Lawyer and historian Julio Cesar Jaen said
Guanacaste requires a master plan for its
economic and social development, along with
cultural growth initiatives, that would also
encompass the Nicoya Gulf islands. Other
needs that were expressed include
administrative decentralization, autonomous
executive power, and the right to have at
least one citizen of the province
represented in the Executive Branch.
Meanwhile, Manuel Ardon, operations manager
for tourism and real estate development
project Peninsula Papagayo, said there’s a
need currently to define the path to be
taken and unify thoughts about how to
accomplish such a task. “We cannot afford to
be thinking along different lines during
these difficult times, wasting efforts and
resources in a diversified manner, as we
require to be more efficient to reach the
goal we are all looking for,” he pointed
out.
Ardon also said that Guanacaste must put an
end to antagonism between various sectors
and understand that if one sector suffers,
the other will also be impacted. “We need to
see ourselves as partners united by the same
vision so that we can truly work together,”
Ardon indicated, adding that hard work needs
to be done to preserve traditional values so
that young generations feel proud of their
province.
During this presentation, former Guanacaste
congressman Oscar Campos indicated that
there is a need to create a Guanacaste
Development Corporation, as he believes this
would be the most appropriate way to obtain
financing to execute master plans that would
bring to light the great potential the
province offers.
“Let not 180 more years (how old Guanacaste
is) go by,” Campos said. “Let us build, but
let’s do it ourselves. Change does not come
from the outside; we make it happen.” |
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