Rulers should be aware that a very large percentage of their people do not satisfy their hunger eating sovereignty but by eating rice and beans.
Wednesday, April 23, 2014
It seems that the current interest of the elected president of Costa Rica is to maintain the highest possible tension with Nicaragua.
Editorial
Undoubtedly, any gesture of rapprochement with the government of President Ortega will entail political costs for Luis Guillermo Solís, the next president of Costa Rica. But it is clear that this - the beginning of his term - was the best time to make that gesture, promoting a release of tension over the border dispute in the Caribbean area.
But Solis did the opposite. The exclusion of Nicaragua of his tour to personally invite Central Americans leaders to his assumption of the Costa Rican presidency, is an aggressive message that contributes nothing to the solving the problem, which beyond looking at who has the most valid reasons, will only be resolved with political courage and frank dialogue.
It seems clear that despite the ever-sounding declarations of those in power, Central American integration is a reality that is unlikely to actually occur at the enterprise level, as demonstrated by the intense intra regional trade.
Perhaps it is time that business associations from both countries meet and, if feasible, develop a plan for the development of the disputed area and the entire common border. It would be the best way to corner the officials puffing up their chests talking about integration, forcing them to act in a manner which is consistent with the interests of their people, of which large a percentage are not able to satisfy their hunger with sovereignty but instead by eating just rice and beans.
Mimicking countries in the Bolivarian Alliance by snubbing the president of Brazil in the UN confirms the ideological inconsistency of a government that on the one hand has ministers who support free international trade and others who practice blatant protectionism.
In Costa Rica the Solis administration, which promised that no new taxes would be applied in the first two years of its government, has granted a huge increase for public employees, and these are the same people who are now proposing a "Robin Hood" tax.
EDITORIAL
President Luis Guillermo Solís seems to be increasingly disconnected from the Citizen Action Party which brought him to power, and his government seems more and more to be the result of complex interactions within an academic union corporation, where the dominant political concepts seem to be drawn from melodramas of the sixties and seventies of the twentieth century. The main feature of the members of this outdated corporation - especially its main leaders - is the disconnect with the world of the real economy which allows them to regularly receive their salaries regardless of actual productivity of their labors.
Paralyzed in political terms, the integration of Central American countries continues to advance in commercial terms.
While trade between the Central American countries continues to grow, as well as regional synergy between its companies, governments have been unable in recent years to marry the process of trade integration with the necessary institutional integration.
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