The Political Spectrum Turned Upside Down October 7, 2007
Posted by Webmaster in Foreign Trade, Mexico & Latin America, Nationalism and Devolution.trackback
The Christian Science Monitor profiles growing Costa Rican nationalism, and opposition to the Central American Free Trade Agreement (CAFTA), and to the formal continental unification that CAFTA and its partner in crime, NAFTA, foreshadows. There is a public vote this weekend, asking the country’s citizens whether the country should adopt CAFTA; pre-election opinion polls show a slight lead for the anti-CAFTA and nationalist forces.
The irony of Latin American nationalisms are that those movements are associated with the political left, and as one can read in this article, Costa Rica’s intelligentsia, represented by the prevailing opinion of its professors of higher education, are on board. In the white world, the political left and the professorial class are usually anything but nationalist.
Costa Rica has been, for the last few decades, a retirement haven for American pensioners. The danger in buying real estate in Latin America has always been the risk of a nationalist-leftist regime coming to power, and expropriating “gringo’s” property. An anti-CAFTA victory this weekend could be the first step along the way.
Comments
Sorry comments are closed for this entry