A law regulating monopolistic behavior received yesterday the initial approval in Congress, despite the dissatisfaction of business groups.
Members of the Committee on Economic Affairs ruled the project called 'Competition Promoting Act', which create the Commission for the Promotion of Competition (COPROCOM) and powers it to confiscate business documents, if authorized by a judge.
The road ahead for the $850 million loan approved by IDB to carry out several infrastructure programs is not as clear as the Government would wish.
"President Arias left the country in debt in 1990 and we won’t allow him to do it again, at the time we (lawmakers) had to run to Washington and South America to borrow money to pay for the goals he had committed to," said Jorge Eduardo Sanchez, from the Social Christian Unity party.