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AFTER REFERENDUM, COSTA RICA STILL A LONG WAY FROM CAFTA IMPLEMENTATION--THE BATTLE CONTINUES.
The fight regarding the Central America Free Trade Agreement (CAFTA) is not over in Costa Rica. One might have thought that, when the electorate narrowly approved the referendum on Oct. 7 (see NotiCen, 2007-10-18), the contention would have been laid to rest, Costa Rica would have ceased to be the last holdout, and CAFTA would have become a fact in the country, just as it is in Nicaragua, Honduras, El Salvador, Guatemala, and the Dominican Republic. But one would have been wrong, reckoning without the Asamblea Legislativa (AL), which is still very much divided on CAFTA and which has yet t...
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