Im doing a project in my world geography class about costa rica. What are current problems that Costa rica has?

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Tico Roots.

The same problems as the rest of the world. Rich getting richer and poor getting poorer. Big rich cooperation's taking advantage of low cost labor.

Everything gets more expensive everyday while pay wages stay the same, the rent goes up, food, gas, everything. So the people charging all the money are putting more in their pockets and the people paying the money and working hard for it have less in their pockets.

You know Mc Donald's makes more money in CR than in the states because the combos have the same price and they sell the same amount but they pay their employees less than $250 a month and they have to work 12 hours a day.

That's just an example but there are many more companies doing the same. Making millions in profits and paying employees enough to borrow money till next pay day to buy food and get around in transportation. The whole world is sharing the same big problem at this moment. Its a new depression for the poor all over the world because of the war in the middle east and the greed of trillionairs.

I guess something that is a big deal in CR right now is that its the only country in central america that still has not signed the Free Trade aggreement with US because many are scared that it might benefit more the US than CR. Or maybe its that there is a hand full of people that are making a lot of money from taxes being charged for products that are imported into the country and with Free Trade i guess they wouldnt be able to tax all that stuff and there would be a lot more products coming in and a lot more competition and they dont want that competition because they would have to lower the prices on a lot of things. You see they keep there own Costa Ricans blind on the real prices of things and we end up paying more for everything.

As and example, a play station 2 in the sates cost $160 brand new while here in CR its cost $300. Why because it got imported into the country so they taxed it since there is no free trade. A car that cost $2k in the states cost $5k to $7k here because it got imported here and there is no free trade. You see what im saying, things are more expensive in CR than in the States and peopleÂ´s salaries are between $200 to $400 a month. But than there are a lot of rich people who make a lot more money than that and can afford to pay double for everything.

But aside from all the negative things Costa Rica also has a lot of positive things and good things but we humans only like to talk about the bad things going on. No country is perfect, every country has crimes, drugs and corruption but there are also a lot of good things like freedom, unity of people (less racism), no military, beautiful beaches and mountains, good affordable education, affordable health care, happy people that love soccer and so on and so on and so on

ticosland2008

I have just the place for you. The TicosLand.com has forums and blogs where we deal with contemporary issues affecting Costa Rica. You can go to any of them and get great information. I have included the links. Good luck.

*Amber*

1.Illegal immigration from Nicaragua, Colombia, Dominican Republic , and more...
2.Forests being cut down to make resorts, luxury vacation homes etc.

In Costa Rica there are many problems... It could be political as corruption. Ecological: many forest are being damaged by big projects as hotel, condoms, etc... In the social area some problems are poverty, social security that sometimes is not sufficient to satisfied all needs. This year inflation is gonna be an important economy problem because last year it decreased buy this one when up!

It's important to investigate more about the process to approve the CAFTA because this topic has divided society in two big groups: Those to wants to approve it and the ones who deny it. For this reason in october 7th, 2007 was the first referendum in Costa Rica's history.

pitagoras825

A lot a problems my friend, for example the security, here is a lie to talk about that, we have a lot of wickeds and they can kill you for one dollar, and I am not kidding about it

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