Costa Rica, with its tourist-based economy and lack of a national army, has focused on keeping safe its beaches, parks and other public draws. It is one if the safest countries in Central America based on the number of homicides. Laura Chinchilla
Free trade will go a long way toward alleviating poverty in Central America. Yet trade alone is not enough. Oscar Arias Sanchez
Proponents of the Central America Free Trade Agreement have conveniently ignored this fundamental fact: the effect of trade on incomes in Central America and how to alleviate the adverse consequences of trade liberalization on the poor. Stephen F. Lynch