Thousands Demonstrate in Costa Rica over Proposed Legal Reforms
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Le Journal de Montreal
Several thousand people protested Monday throughout Costa Rica against the new President Laura Fernandez.
Deutsche Welle
EstamosAquí MXThousands of Costa Ricans protested against an alleged threat by President Laura Fernández to the democratic system, one of the most stable in Latin America, due to conflicts with the judiciary.
The right-wing president, in power since May, has been pushing for a reform of the justice system, which she accuses of inaction in the face of the growing violence of organized crime. The conflict intensified in recent months. The president called the magistrates of "golpistas" and one of them denounced an authoritarian derivation of the government, whose reform proposal is criticized because it allegedly would affect the impartiality of justic…
Thousands of people protested against the President of Costa Rica and a reform of the judicial system, seen as a threat to democracy and the impartiality of judges, the international press today reported.
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