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Caribbean & Central America - June 2012 (ISSN 1741-4458)
COSTA RICA: Corruption allegations snowball
May could have been a great month for President Laura Chinchilla after her ruling Partido Liberación Nacional (PLN) retook control of the national assembly (AL)'s directorate at the start of the month [RC-12-05]. However, after losing several members of her administration, including one minister, to corruption in April [RC-12-04], the President also lost her justice and transport & planning ministers, Hernando París and Francisco Jiménez - the latter forced out over another corruption scandal – in May. With 11 of Chinchilla’s 23 ministers having left the cabinet since she took office two years ago (May 2010), the instability at the top is unlikely to do much for her popularity – which, at 26%, is the lowest of any Latin American president according to a recent Mitofsky poll.
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