QCOSTARICA — While touring San Carlos, President Rodrigo Chaves made a significant shift in his speech about Costa Rica as a democracy on Friday. He stated that the country had been functioning as “a perfect dictatorship” for the past seven decades, since the 1948 Revolution.
This new statement of criticism of the Costa Rican political system contrasts with the statement he gave on March 21 before a large delegation from the United States, when he presented the “Roadmap of the semiconductor ecosystem” and without hesitation said what any expert would have said about the modern history of Costa Rica: “Costa Rica has been and will continue to be a beacon of democracy, peace, and environmental commitment.”
This is seen at minute 54 of the video and can still be seen on the Presidencia on the YouTube platform.
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That day, without making sounds like he did today trying to imitate a jaguar, he said that this nation has been firm in defending democratic values. He even spoke of the need to “protect democracy” by improving the public services that the population receives because when this does not happen “people come in with strange ideas selling a scam, saying we have a better alternative to democracy for you.”
Costa Rica’s democratic tradition was even mentioned by Chaves in his May 2 speech in the Legislative Assembly, when he referred to the international ranking in which Costa Rica has been well positioned for years.
“Our democracy is strong and continues to be a global example. This is reflected in the Democracy 2023 index of the prestigious newspaper The Economist, which places our nation as the best consolidated democracy in Latin America and number 17 in the world,” he said.
But now six weeks later and accompanied by cheers from those present at an event in San Carlos, the message is different. Reaffirming that his government embodies a “revolution” and clinging to the figure of a ‘jaguar’ as a metaphor for bravery on the occasion of an alleged referendum, Chaves’ turn came to describe as false the idea that Costa Rica has been a democracy since the middle of the 20th century.
“They were outrageous, they made us think that this was totally up to us, when they only let it be partially up to us,” he criticized about the laws and the Political Constitution, as he even called those who wrote it “vivazos” (persons extremely skilled at taking advantage).
“That story that democracy and institutions… we realized that institutions are not there to serve interest groups,” he said in his speech at the inauguration ceremony of the San Carlos water storage tanks.
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“75 years of the same Legislative Assembly, with small changes or 70 (years) appointing the same magistrates, to the same Constitutional Court, making the same exchanges as the Argentine tango says and from one moment to the next (makes a feline animal sound) the tiger, the painted one, the jaguarrrrr wakes up and says ‘hold on,’” he added in reference to the reaction that he claims to have inspired in the population.
The jaguar is the animal that Chaves adopted as the logo of his government to present the bill with the desire to call a referendum, among other things, to modify the actions of the Comptroller General.
Translated and adapted from SemanarioUniversidad.com. Read the original in Spanish here.
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