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27 February 2010
COSTA RICA: Where Politics Of The Center Succeeds.
GLOBAL POST/ What makes Costa Rica the “Switzerland of Central America,” a nation that just elected its first woman president? And why do its residents choose the political center while regional neighbors seem so polarized? The answers according to political scientists : the lack of a military and weak unions.