Representatives of protesters assured protests will continue today and until the president of Costa Rica, Carlos Alvarado, desists from negotiating any plan with the International Monetary Fund (IMF).
Diverse leaders of the National Rescue Movement (MRN), a civil society group with the support of some unions, assure that in his message to the country Alvarado announced only that his Government will not go ahead with the initial proposal to receive a loan for 1,750 million dollars from the IMF, and called for a dialogue to seek another plan.
The president’s message is ambiguous and inconclusive, so we will continue the mobilization, said José Miguel Corrales, the main leader of the MRN, whose members have maintained road blockades in this country since last September 30, with the main objective that the Government abandon your pretense of negotiating with the IMF.
For the general secretary of the National Association of Public and Private Employees, Albino Vargas, the Government does not need this loan from the IMF, because in the country much more money can be obtained than that and he cited as examples what the Government stops receiving for tax evasion and avoidance.
In his message to the country, the Tico president also summoned the different sectors that support the institutional channels for us to open a national dialogue to resolve the economic emergency facing the country.
Since it was revealed on September 17, the official plan received an almost unanimous rejection from all sectors of the country due to the new taxes and the sale of State assets, which for many will mean greater debt, the privatization of important companies and further impoverishment of the working class.
Likewise, several political forces represented in the Legislative Assembly expressed that they will not vote in favor of these new taxes and this Sunday the National Liberation Party – the majority bench – urged the Government to withdraw that proposal to the IMF, which for some analysts motivated the position presidential.
In addition to continuing the blockades by members of the MRN, several unions called for a large concentration for tomorrow and march through the main avenues of this capital to the Legislative Assembly for tax justice, under the slogan That the rich pay as rich and the poor as poor.
The call was also welcomed by the Frente Amplio, which posted on its Twitter social network account ‘The time for #JusticiaTributaria has arrived! The Frente Amplio joins the streets to fight for economic justice for the people of Costa Rica. This country it can no longer bear any more tax evasion or privileges for the rich and big tax avoiders’.(PL).
