November 2007

by Marco Rosaire Rossi

Spirits were high at the “NO!” Campaign’s demonstration in San José, Costa Rica, one week before the Oct. 7 vote on whether to approve the controversial trade agreement cafta. There was no reason for them not to be: over 100,000 people had attended the demonstration, several polls had consistently shown that the “NO!” Campaign was going to squeak by (with one poll showing that they were ahead by 12%), and the government of President Óscar Arias had just humiliated itself in a recent leaked memorandum scandal. The contents of the memo indicated that the government was . . .