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Weekly Report - 19 October 2017 (WR-17-41)

COSTA RICA: Cementing corruption concerns ahead of elections

With less than four months until the first round of presidential and legislative elections on 4 February, campaigning efforts have been overshadowed by a scandal which broke last month involving the Costa Rican subsidiary of the Chinese cement exporter Sinocem Costa Rica, the state Banco de Costa Rica (BCR), and top public officials. With one presidential candidate, Otto Guevara of the small opposition Movimiento Libertario (ML), already implicated, the impact could well spread.

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