According to Víctor Umaña, CLACDS’ director from INCAE,
Costa Rica has the resources to make progress in solving the competitiveness problems it has, such as infrastructure, poverty and bureaucracy, but it can’t due to a lack of management, efficiency and transparency.”
This was part of his intervention in the political debate organized by the Costa Rican Chamber of Food Industry (CACIA), where he also added Costa Rica is a dual country because it’s really good at education, health and innovation, but it complicates the rest.
On the other hand, Epsy Campbell, legislator from the party Acción Ciudadana (PAC), said that all parties want the power but fail to ask themselves what kind of Costa Rica they want in 20 years, despite knowing what the country’s problems are.
Otto Guevara, from the party Movimiento Libertario, said that everyone wants more security, reduced poverty and first world infrastructure.
However, as legislator Mario Redondo from the party Alianza Democrática Cristiana puts it, politics is filled with mediocre people looking for their own benefit.