{"id":7731,"date":"2010-02-05T01:44:00","date_gmt":"2010-02-05T01:44:00","guid":{"rendered":"http:\/\/euvolution.com\/futurist-transhuman-news-blog\/costa-rica-late-surge-by-libertarian-otto-guevara\/"},"modified":"2010-02-05T01:44:00","modified_gmt":"2010-02-05T01:44:00","slug":"costa-rica-late-surge-by-libertarian-otto-guevara","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/www.euvolution.com\/futurist-transhuman-news-blog\/libertarian\/costa-rica-late-surge-by-libertarian-otto-guevara.php","title":{"rendered":"COSTA RICA: Late Surge by Libertarian Otto Guevara?"},"content":{"rendered":"<p><a href=\"http:\/\/1.bp.blogspot.com\/_Zm6JXvXXze4\/S2t8rZ4O4wI\/AAAAAAAAJpw\/Nw-_GnqKFWk\/s1600-h\/otto-guevara.jpg\"><img decoding=\"async\" style=\"padding-left:10px; padding-right: 10px;\" src=\"http:\/\/euvolution.com\/futurist-transhuman-news-blog\/wp-content\/plugins\/wp-o-matic\/cache\/88b92_otto-guevara.jpg\" border=\"0\"><\/a>From <a href=\"http:\/\/www.reuters.com\/article\/idUSTRE6135L120100204\">Reuters - World<\/a>:<\/p><blockquote><p>OTTO GUEVARA<\/p><p>A Harvard-educated lawyer and founder of the country's pro-business Libertarian Movement party, Guevara has surged in opinion polls in recent months, winning support from Costa Ricans seeking an outsider candidate.<\/p><p>The former lawmaker wants to take a hard line against rising crime, extending prison sentences and easing gun laws for law-abiding citizens.<\/p><p>Despite Costa Rica's stable macroeconomic fundamentals, Guevara, 49, has called for scrapping the floating colon currency, which he says is grossly undervalued, and replacing it with the U.S. dollar.<\/p><p>He gained prominence as an ambitious young lawmaker for fighting wasteful spending in Costa Rica's elaborate public health care and insurance system and has promised to slash bureaucracy if elected.<\/p><\/blockquote><p><a href=\"http:\/\/3.bp.blogspot.com\/_Zm6JXvXXze4\/S2t7Crmvw3I\/AAAAAAAAJpY\/HAjpD-votfo\/s1600-h\/CostaRica.gif\"><img decoding=\"async\" style=\"padding-left:10px; padding-right: 10px;\" src=\"http:\/\/euvolution.com\/futurist-transhuman-news-blog\/wp-content\/plugins\/wp-o-matic\/cache\/88b92_CostaRica.gif\" border=\"0\"><\/a>Now Reuters and other news services are reporting a \"late surge\" for Guevara.  Continuing:<\/p><blockquote><p>Polls place Laura Chinchilla within striking distance of the 40 percent of the vote she needs to avoid a runoff, but a late surge by conservative former lawmaker Otto Guevara and gains by centrist Otton Solis have narrowed her lead.<\/p><\/blockquote><p>One poll just released by <a href=\"http:\/\/www.angus-reid.com\/polls\/view\/34985\/chinchilla_leads_guevara_gains_in_costa_rica\">Demoscop&iacute;a<\/a> published in Al D&iacute;a shows Guevara increasing from 19.5% in December to 30.1% in January. Though Chincilla still leads at 45%.  <\/p><p>Still, another poll finds Guevara in a slightly better position. La Nacion newspaper reported (via Reuters), \"Outsider closes gap in Costa Rica Presidential race\":<\/p><blockquote><p>Newcomer Otto Guevara from the fringe Libertarian Movement, has pulled into second place behind Chinchilla ahead of the Feb. 7 election...<\/p><p>Chinchilla, a moderate from the National Liberation Party who is backed by sitting President Oscar Arias, had 40 percent of decided voters in her camp, down from 63 percent in a September poll, while Guevarra's support jumped to 30 percent from 13 percent in the earlier survey.<\/p><\/blockquote><div><img loading=\"lazy\" decoding=\"async\" width=\"1\" height=\"1\" src=\"http:\/\/euvolution.com\/futurist-transhuman-news-blog\/wp-content\/plugins\/wp-o-matic\/cache\/88b92_7828681836623105417-8078654270998527690?l=libertarianrepublican.blogspot.com\" alt=\"\" style=\"padding-left:10px; padding-right: 10px;\"><\/div>","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>From Reuters - World:OTTO GUEVARAA Harvard-educated lawyer and founder of the country's pro-business Libertarian Movement party, Guevara has surged in opinion polls in recent months, winning support from Costa Ricans seeking an outsider candidate.The former lawmaker wants to take a &hellip; <a href=\"https:\/\/www.euvolution.com\/futurist-transhuman-news-blog\/libertarian\/costa-rica-late-surge-by-libertarian-otto-guevara.php\">Continue reading <span class=\"meta-nav\">&rarr;<\/span><\/a><\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":1,"featured_media":0,"comment_status":"closed","ping_status":"closed","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"limit_modified_date":"","last_modified_date":"","_lmt_disableupdate":"","_lmt_disable":"","footnotes":""},"categories":[28],"tags":[],"class_list":["post-7731","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","hentry","category-libertarian"],"modified_by":null,"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.euvolution.com\/futurist-transhuman-news-blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/7731"}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.euvolution.com\/futurist-transhuman-news-blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.euvolution.com\/futurist-transhuman-news-blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.euvolution.com\/futurist-transhuman-news-blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/users\/1"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.euvolution.com\/futurist-transhuman-news-blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=7731"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"https:\/\/www.euvolution.com\/futurist-transhuman-news-blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/7731\/revisions"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.euvolution.com\/futurist-transhuman-news-blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=7731"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.euvolution.com\/futurist-transhuman-news-blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=7731"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.euvolution.com\/futurist-transhuman-news-blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=7731"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}