Examples Don Jaime Gutierrez cites in his article "the attic is determined to be poor" on Tuesday, August 3 indicate a lack of knowledge about history and reality in Central America and Panama in relation to of Costa Rica. Costa Rica is a country with virtually no mines and no However, in relative terms is much less poverty than other Central American countries where the mines are open pit gold export decades inherited wealth and poverty. There
countries to expel more youth in the region to Guatemala, Honduras and El Salvador, and, however, gold mining in the open is an important part of economic activities in those countries. Costa Rica has no channel, but its indigenous and rural populations have a much higher quality of life for the average Panamanian indigenous and rural population.
megadistrito Panama has a financial and also has first world roads but the 300,000 or more indigenous Ngobe people, inheritors of an ancient cultural wealth are totally excluded from that wealth, live in extreme poverty and many are forced to migrate into Costa Rica in search of decent work. Source
corruption. Maybe Don Jaime has not heard about the "resource curse," an analysis that make international leading economists such as Nobel laureate Joseph Stiglitz. This man explained that extractive resources often encourage corruption and easy money for an elite and mining-based economy creates "rich countries with poor people" (as in the case of Guatemala and other countries in the region).
also suggests that the prices of extractive products are very volatile and distort or not conducive to an economy based on sustainable production and enrichment of human capital. Such is the case of gold in Costa Rica: when the mining company began managing the project (less than three years) the gold was worth $ 300 per ounce, now Don Alfio Piva, our vice president, estimates irresponsibly unnecessary compensation based on Priced at $ 1,200 per ounce. Perhaps
Don Jaime has not delved into controversial texts such as Don Pepe "The Poverty of Nations" where points about the differences between wealth and money and explains why we consider to plant grains and maintain food sovereignty of a country creates wealth.
Maybe then it would be further explanation of why young people migrate Perez Zeledon: Depending on the maldistribution in the land, favored by the concentration of land in the hands of the corporation pineapple, or the abandonment of our policy of food sovereignty based on agro-ecological systems to the detriment of farmers and institutions much loved by our farmers as they were the CNP, IDA and the MAG itself.
Costa Rica was an exemplary country for the region and the world, its wealth based on a comprehensive educational program on social investment in products produced from the plot peasant agro-ecological systems (coffee, cocoa, grains, tubers, etc.). At the time that the economy transnationalized, when the multinational fruit (pineapple, orange, banana) farm families began to move, when we left to the elements of the alleged "free market" of more than twenty thousand peasant families producing 100% of beans that we ate in the mid 80's, then began to open up the huge gap between rich and poor, and started to centroamericanizarnos. Contempt
. Finally, we should remind Don Jaime when it comes to our biodiversity so contemptuous that it was precisely that biodiversity (these "bugs, Alipate and big birds") that allowed and promoted the initial ecotourism in Costa Rica, which in turn attracted hundreds of thousands of tourists every year who have maintained the country's main industry in the last fifteen years.
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