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October 5, 2007

Will Costa Rica Join Latin America's Leftward Tide?

by Sara Miller Llana, CS Monitor, USA - Costa Ricans vote Sunday whether to approve a free-trade pact with the US. It is the only nation in the region not to have ratified DR-CAFTA. Even in Nicaragua, whose president Daniel Ortega was once a virulent US foe, the pact has been ratified.

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