“Trust is the philosopher’s stone of political systems” – A conversation with Raquel Chanto on the state of democracy in Costa Rica and in the World
Costa Rica is an exceptional country in a number of ways. It is a small nation in a region, Central America, torn by civil wars well into the 1980s, that abolished its army over 70 years ago and has lived in peace ever since. The country has achieved exceptionally high levels of human development despite…