Laura Chinchilla Quotes

• Costa Rica remains peacefully and firmly committed to the well- being and safety of our population. We promote a model of development based upon harmony with nature; solidarity and social inclusion; economic and trade opening; development of our human resources, and innovation.

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  Safety, Innovation, Population

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• When you face unexpected events, you have to try to overcome those problems, but at the same time, you have to continue working according to the plan that you defined since the beginning. So that's what we have tried to do - not to avoid the urgent responses but to continue the route that we had defined.

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  Trying, Overcoming, Events

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• The Internet is the hope of an integrated world without frontiers, a common world without controlling owners, a world of opportunities and equality. This is a utopia that we have been dreaming about and is a world in which each and every one of us are protagonists of a destiny that we have in our hands.

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  Dream, Opportunity, Destiny

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• Women continue receiving less salary for the same kind of job. Women have a higher unemployment rate in our country. When you analyze the composition of poverty, you will find that most of the families in poverty are being run by a woman.

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  Country, Running, Jobs

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• A government should not function based on the pressures of some or others. It should try to adapt a mix of measures that fits every context and generates the appropriate steps forward.

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  Government, Trying, Pressure

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• Costa Rica is not afraid to go before any international body.

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  Costa Rica, Body, Not Afraid

  "Costa Rica ready to appeal to higher bodies in border dispute". www.cnn.com. November 10, 2010.

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• I want to thank the pioneering women who years ago opened the doors of politics in Costa Rica. My government will be open to all Costa Ricans of good faith.

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  Government, Doors, Years

  "Costa Rica elects first woman president". www.cnn.com. February 8, 2010.

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• We join the call from other States from our region

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  War, Drug, States

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• 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.

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  Country, Beach, Army

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