My husband and I spent 6 months there attending language school and living with Costa Rican families. While there they held an election to approve or reject the free trade agreement with the U.S. ( the “TLC”). My husband and I read and speak Spanish well, and we were shocked to see the flaming communist rhetoric coming from the left. Free trade did pass but the election results were very close.
My conclusion:
Anyone who buys property or invests in a business in Costa Rica is an idiot! The country could **easily** flip to totally communist in merely one election. Communists control *all* of the social and educational institutions in Costa Rica without a single exception! And...Once it does go communist, there would be no going back! Costa Rica would be just as corrupt and communist as Nicaragua, Venezuela, or Bolivia!
I am not really going anywhere mostly because I can’t afford it. But what you describe sounds like it could happen here if Obama is re-elected.
I agree. Costa Rica is a little scary. We find Panama much nicer. In fact we love it there.