Corruption is difficult to eradicate, both within national borders and across countries and regions. One of the most critical challenges in Costa Rica and around the world is that corrupt actors often operate in the shadows and outside the public eye. They rely on administrative disorder, a lack of documentation, secrecy and a general "misplacement"…
In October 2018, two ordinary people from different backgrounds, Lía Sánchez Agüero, a pensioner who used to work as a nurse, and Jorge Vizcaíno Porras, a volunteer firefighter, decided to take a stand against tax evasion in big business.
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Members of the citizen empowerment movement, Territorios Seguros, Lía and Jorge…
La corrupción es un mal difícil de erradicar. Sabemos que uno de los elementos más críticos y que dificulta enormemente el combate de este flagelo es que sus actores actúan en las sombras, fuera del ojo público y se amparan en el desorden administrativo para no documentar, guardar estricto sigilo o “traspapelar” los papeles o…