{"id":361025,"date":"2018-05-13T18:22:47","date_gmt":"2018-05-13T17:22:47","guid":{"rendered":"http:\/\/rinf.com\/alt-news\/newswire\/costa-rican-president-threatens-workers-with-renewed-social-attacks-during-inaugural-address\/"},"modified":"2018-05-13T18:22:47","modified_gmt":"2018-05-13T17:22:47","slug":"costa-rican-president-threatens-workers-with-renewed-social-attacks-during-inaugural-address","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/rinf.com\/alt-news\/newswire\/costa-rican-president-threatens-workers-with-renewed-social-attacks-during-inaugural-address\/","title":{"rendered":"Costa Rican president threatens workers with renewed social attacks during inaugural address"},"content":{"rendered":"<div id=\"content\">\n<h3 class=\"nomargin\">\u00a0<\/h3>\n<h4>\u201cWe\u2019ll be austere\u2026 strict\u2026 rigorous\u201d<\/h4>\n<h2>Costa Rican president threatens workers with renewed social attacks during inaugural address<\/h2>\n<h5>\n<p>    By<br \/>\n    Andrea Lobo<br \/>\n    <br \/>12 May 2018<\/p>\n<\/h5>\n<p>The new president of the incumbent Citizen\u2019s Action Party (PAC), Carlos Alvarado, who won in April elections marked by deep popular discontent, gave a rabidly nationalist and reactionary inaugural speech on Tuesday. His government, he began, \u201cemerges out of a national agreement, with the first multi-party cabinet and\u2026a multi-party Congress directory.\u201d<\/p>\n<p>Behind the ruling class\u2019s historical consolidation of power behind the incoming Alvarado administration, as the president himself noted, were \u201cuncertain times in the concert of nations\u201d. This was a veiled allusion to the stagnation of productive investments in the country and regionally, and to the mounting threats of commercial and military conflicts between the largest global economies.<\/p>\n<p>Alvarado openly warned that the response by the ruling class will be an escalated assault against social programs and a frontal clash with the working class: \u201cWe\u2019ll be austere, beginning with an efficient use of the public treasury; we\u2019ll keep a strict fiscal discipline; we\u2019ll be rigorous in controlling public spending.\u201d<\/p>\n<p>In the face of such a right-wing program aimed at implementing the dictates of Wall Street and the national oligarchy, nothing remains of the perfunctory promises of reforms to assist the poor and reduce inequality that Alvarado and the trade unions made during the campaign.<\/p>\n<p>Setting the stage for this coming government, the last Congress approved labor and legislative reforms to expedite the implementation of austerity measures, the attacks on jobs and the criminalization of strikes, particularly of public employees and workers&#8230;<\/p>\n<\/div>\n<p><a href=\"http:\/\/www.wsws.org\/en\/articles\/2018\/05\/12\/rica-m12.html\">Read more<\/a><\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>\u00a0 \u201cWe\u2019ll be austere\u2026 strict\u2026 rigorous\u201d Costa Rican president threatens workers with renewed social attacks during inaugural address By Andrea Lobo 12 May 2018 The new president of the incumbent Citizen\u2019s Action Party (PAC), Carlos Alvarado, who won in April elections marked by deep popular discontent, gave a rabidly nationalist and reactionary inaugural speech on [&hellip;]<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":2526,"featured_media":0,"comment_status":"open","ping_status":"closed","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":""},"categories":[519],"tags":[],"class_list":{"0":"post-361025","1":"post","2":"type-post","3":"status-publish","4":"format-standard","6":"category-newswire"},"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/rinf.com\/alt-news\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/361025","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/rinf.com\/alt-news\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/rinf.com\/alt-news\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/rinf.com\/alt-news\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/users\/2526"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/rinf.com\/alt-news\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=361025"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"https:\/\/rinf.com\/alt-news\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/361025\/revisions"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/rinf.com\/alt-news\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=361025"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/rinf.com\/alt-news\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=361025"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/rinf.com\/alt-news\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=361025"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}