My country is fucking shit

I just want to vent Sup Forums, I just want others to know about the current situation of my country.

This shit is hopeless, our government is ridiculously inefficient and corrupt. The president is a fucking cuck, but even if he weren't, there's jackshit he can do because the executive "power" is completely powerless, president is literally just an honorary title with no other use.

The guys who make our laws, deputies (equivalent of an us congressman) are mostly uneducated fools with a backwards mind, completely corrupt by themselves, many of them legislating for their own interests (i.e one of them is married to the owner of an "informal cabs" company, so he suddenly legislates in favor of "informal" (read illegal) pirates and shit). The system is extremely fucking retarded because a SINGLE deputy can stop an entire law from being passed. We had a law punishing against animal cruelty and it was denied because a single guy was in bed with the cock fighting association (yeah we have one of those ffs). It's completely ungovernable.

Our public healthcare system is shit, people with a tumor are getting scheduled "urgent ultrasounds" for the year 2025 because it's fucking collapsed, because the organization managing the public health system is also corrupt as fuck and because a fuckload of Nicaraguan illegal immigrants just come over here to get treated and then leave . Government keeps increasing our taxes, in everything, and cutting the salaries of the working class while giving themselves ridiculous raises and pensions. Did you know that a college professor here gets a pension 3 times as big as an ex-POTUS pension?

Gas prices are among the highest in North america, over 51% of the price is a tax, and the "refinery" which sells us the oil doesn't actually refines it and they increase the tax to pay for shit like their employee's end of the year party
Will cont

every time there's money giving by some NGO or foreign power for a work of public interest like a new road, 50% or more of the funds mysteriously vanishes, and the job is half assed. Traffic is fucking terrible, you can last up to 4 hours commuting, we also work the 2nd highest amount of hours IN THE WORLD only behind Mexico, with the least amount of productivity. People are fucking retarded and they'll bash your head in if you dare to say something negative about the country.


Criminality is rising and the government keeps trying harder and harder to disarm honest citizens. Laws are against us. If we get mugged and we defend ourselves with a LEGAL registered gun, we get caught in an investigation that usually lasts YEARS and we can even go to jail for a couple of days in that period of time. If a crook breaks into our house and we put a bullet in him and dont kill him, he can sue us for damages and we have to pay him healthcare for life. But if we shoot more than 1 bullet we get charged with unreasonable amount of force and go to jail. When an actual thug is caught (Mugger, killer, rapist) they almost always end up going free unless it's some extremely high profile case, they just give them a pat in the back and make them sign a paper every 15 days.

Jails are fucking FULL, which is why the judicial power (also corrupt as fuck) lets go of every "minor" criminal like muggers, because they cant fit anyone else inside the jails. And still the BIGGEST jail in the country received an order from a judge to be CLOSED because there were so many people in it, they were being kept in "inhuman conditions": Pretty much like 60% of the jail population is comprised of FATHERS WHO FAILED TO PAY ALIMONY. And the office which sets the amount of Alimony is controlled by a literally FEMINAZI government sanctioned institution which sets ridiculous amounts even if its proven that the father doesn't earns half as much as that. We had a case of a small restaurant owner who's income was about 3k usd monthly being forced to pay 14k usd per month, and in the receipt of the payment set by the kid's mother it said that they were spending 900 dollars on "hair stylists" and other shit, of course the kid wasn't seeing any of htat money, the mother was keeping all of it.

But because of that bullshit, our jails are full, and real criminals are able to walk the streets freely. Just a few weeks ago a man killed a shopkeeper for 60 bucks and it was later revealed that the man had a pending 8 YEARS JAIL SENTENCE that had already been assigned but he was not yet in jail because he had a residence. The guy only turned himself over because the person he killed was a chinese and the chinese mafia put a bounty on his head

>People are fucking retarded and they'll bash your head in if you dare to say something negative about the country.

I agree with everything you said, but specially on this. Fucking cucks that whenever something bad is said about our country go apeshit.

>Muh beautiful country
>Muh happiest people on Earth

Because of people like them we will never find progress. Sure, we don't have it as bad as other latin american countries, but we need something done asap or we will go to shit. MCRGA!

Retards also keep fucking shouting "MUH FIRST COUNTRY WITHOUT AN ARMY!"
we were not the first fucking country without an army, like 6 others did it before us.

And its still fucking retarded to be proud of that, nothing wrong in a properly managed army. We literally had the most successful and best equipped army in central america before that cuck figueres abolished it.

I like thailand

Hey OP that sounds like my country too

Costa Rica politics are just shit.
Everyone knows it's corrupted. Everyone knows all the politicians are corrupted. And the ones that aren't don't have the funds to compete.

Besides, chinese mafia is everywhere. China has this country by the balls.

Op, as I said to another cranon in another thread: you need to develop some skill which is in high demand in a 1st world country, get everything ready and leave. This shit is only getting worse. Im just racking up experience in web developing and java to get a job in europe, theres a fuckload of market for it right now and its increasing a lot and eurocucks cant keep with the demand. A friend of mine actually got a work visa and living permit for germany just to plaster fucking ads on billboards and cars because germans are not meeting the supply of workforce to keep their industry running

That's the typical trend of Costa Rica. Gain the skills to leave and live somewhere else. Usually some country of Europe.

I personally believe the people of this country are just too weak. They don't believe in power of voice and union. So they let the rest of the country stomp on them while they bitch and continue their stupid lives.

I thought your country was one of the best in south america in general terms desu, pretty interesting to read your insight of the situation

Well that's because the rest of central/south america and mexico is just pure 9001% shit.

We're keeping our head above the water and things are relatively better for the general public, but anyone who has the knowledge knows it's better to flee the country. Chicks tend to go towards new york or new jersey and dudes go literally anywhere else.

I've heard impressive stories.

if everyone does the same, and the ''best'' people of your country, the ones with ideas and talent, simply immigrate to another country, how the hell do you expect to improve the current/future situation?

fight for your country

sounds like you need to build a wall

come home brown man.

you could have been describing america just as well.

Problem is income. People with the talent have no problem going to another country and can earn way way way more than can be made here with the same profession.

So they leave, get rich, and then come back to live a sloppy rich lifestyle.

Or leave, fuck up, either get lost in another society or come back and live with their parents as if they were exiled by society.

Or they leave, make good cash, never come back because profits.

well you ARE third world untermensch, so it would be expected.

nice blog, my slutty german coke head ex gf lives there. you can keep her.

Costa Rica is in North America m8.
Don't let other costa ricans hear that though because they'll lose their shit "AMERICA ES UN CONTINENTE NO 2!!!! YO TAMBIEN SOY AMERICANO NO SOLO LOS GRINGOS!!!", fucking retards cant understand the majority of the world considers America as 2 separate continents.

And yeah, it's one of the best in LATAM but that's because the others are complete shit. But honestly things here aren't improving.

Thats what I'm trying to do, just hoping to find a job in Europe, maybe find a nice deal for my family and take them there. There's nothing we can do, nobody here organizes and the government just laughs at our attempts to do anything.

We fucking cant, trust me the "best" is a very small minority here, we've tried to fight but we get shut down at every twist and turn because the other 90% of the population just sits on their asses and never supports any opportunity that could actually lead to some change. So we have to be realistic and leave to a better place, we can't change this on our own, user.

There's actually been a lot of talk about building a wall with Nicaragua but it will never happen. We have a populist candidate who has lost the elections like 10 times now and he's now saying he's gonna build the wall if he wins kek

You guys have nice beaches. I also went on a cool zipline through the jungle.
How much of the economy is tourism?

Not sure but its a big part, and its dwindling because retards are jacking up the prices for tourists to astronimical levels, so most potential tourists are leaving for Nicaragua and Panama which basically have the same tropical landscapes at less than half the cost.

A 575 ml coke bottle costs 8 bucks in a tourist area, in nicaragua its about 50 cents.

Hope you find something, mae.

I think the problem here is the people. Everyone is "pura vida" but my fucking god, they don't have the gall to unite and actually do something in unition.

Take the medical services here where everyone is, like, a fucking bitch to the doctors. You ask anyone here and they "well, that's just the way things are" when they can actually complain and fight to have shit fixed.

And because this stupid country is very leftist, things aren't bound to get any better. A few "upgrades" to a few things, but nothing more. They're even tightening laws around simple relaxation things like smoking or drinking, and destroying the sex tourism industry of the country.

get a real flag ya bozo

I like your flag
It's like my flag but not

Hello, Dark Costa Rica.

Is Nicaragua safe though? When I was in Costa Rica they basically blamed all crime on Nicaragua.

and as you leave you will continue to brain drain your country making the entire situation worse.

>You can fix it if you complain

You actually cant and that's the sad part. Denounces just fall on deaf ears unless they get media attention. That guy I mentioned who struggled with a 14k usd pension? He made like 20 requests and they were all denied, and then lowered to like 7k usd which was still a lot and he was unemployed by then. It wasn't until channel 7 made a story about him that they managed to get the pension to 500 bucks or something.

Take the red taxi drivers for example, it should be a fucking cakewalk to find out if a guy has more than one red taxi license, which is illegal, and 90% of taxi license owners still have less than 1, does the government care? of course not, they dont do shit to them. It's even illegal to rent your taxi, and we all know that everyone does it, there's guys with even 14 taxi license plates renting the 14 of them, its public info and if you report it they still dont do shit

So is Costa Rica experiencing a mild brain drain? I've always wanted to see what happens to a country when it's best and brightest bail on it for a better place.

Nicaragua is safe for tourists, the Nicaraguan army keeps an eagle eye on touristic zones, and Nicaraguans themselves are very nice.

There's no fucking fixing this, faggot, we're outnumbered, completely, if we stay we're not making the country better, just wasting our own potential.

Just like a year ago, the government refused to fund and give support to Franklin Chang's (The former, decorated NASA astronaut) labs. They were developing an engine to harness energy from hydrogen, clean energy, revolutionary shit, and they said "LOL NO!". I don't even know why the guy didn't pack his bags on the spot and left for one of the 10 countries that are actually begging him to take his research to them

HAHAHAHA they're the mexico of this country. I'm sure it's not AS BAD as the stories I've heard. But I have heard shit is extra cheap there and Nica chicks are pretty hot.

Yeah, well... What options are we left with in this weak corrupt country? Smoke weed and drink our worries away?

Yes, you got a point. But I've never seen a massive stir up regarding medicine and the people. Only that one video that shows the hospital folks being douchebags.

Didn't know that much about the red taxis. I, like other civilized Ticos, have been using Uber. Red taxi guys suck dick.

I'd say it's a very high brain drain, it used to be mild but this generation is leaving in huge droves, mostly because of the global situation. Europe is looking for skilled workforce around the globe and we happen to be a place with skilled workforce currently working on extremely shitty conditions, so no wonder most of us are heading towards the old continent for a better life

Additional note, don't buy property there. Government are a bunch of commies. Can literally take your property away from you.

Just go as a tourist and nothing else.

>Yeah, well... What options are we left with in this weak corrupt country? Smoke weed and drink our worries away?
grass roots far right wing political campaign and shame culture. you need a hitler/trump personality to actually do something.

That is something I agree with. I love Trump. About 90% of this country's middle and upper class are a bunch of liberal shits inspired by canada and obama. So as much as I can dream, it'll probably never happen that we get a real Winner as a president.

Man I studied medicine for a while and I can assure you those videos always omit a key part to make the doctors look like the bad guys. It's part of the PLN plan to kill the CCSS. Arias has a personal interest in private healthcare

Shit. I didn't know the inside baseball ran that deep. Private doctors are pretty cool, but fuck—they burn a hole through your wallet and soul.

We got no prominent political figure. The only guy who seemed to be a ray of light in the dark ended up being an actual commie who will NEVER get slightly close of winning an election again (He almost won the last election) because his party has gone full commie publicly (they were always commies, just hiding it) in the last 3 years doing a fuckload of incredibly despicable and stupid shit.

The guy who is closest to Trump is a charlatan, a populist who will say anything to get elected, he is very far right and has a lot of measures that would honestly kill the country's economics.

I actually forgot about our most prominent political figure.

This guy is literally the male equivalent of Hillary Clinton (or even a small time Soros), he tried to go for a third presidency but retreated back to the shadows because he realized he would not win

are you arguing for socialized medicine? please never come to america.

then run for office.
ill donate to your campaign.

Yeah man for example that video you're talking about, the guy filming was drunk, the "patient" had come to get be incapacitated but the doc deemed the symptoms not worthy for it, so they stayed making a rackus, and then the staff began ignoring them, thats when they started filming.

There was also a vid a few years ago about the Cartago Hospital, a woman screaming in the ER begging for pain meds, media got all over it "CARTAGO HOSPITAL DOCTORS LET WOMAN AGONIZE IN THE ER!" they didnt tell you that the woman was a drug addict who literally came every single day to put the same circus performance in hopes of getting opiates.

We have a very large shadow war in this country my friend

In short: It's apparently conservative to vote commie. Because as you said, economy can easily die here.

Isn't that the guy that totally stole a ton of money from the government and ran away to a different country?

The medical system has been delicately balanced to fuck over the client. If it's socialized, it's pretty much free, slow, you're the bitch, they choose 1000% of the procedures, who cares what you think. I think it's fucked up.

If you go private, it's fucking effective, fucking fast, and they will fuck your wallet so easily. Compared to the US, it's relatively cheap. By our standards, it's a deathray on the wallet. Great if you are serious about a medical investigation.

I never saw the second video. But that sucks. People here can be easily influenced.

Our system used to work, one of the best in the world before all the GIBMEDATS came up.

Sadly I cant, need to be over 35 to run for office and I believe you gotta be a Master in law.

But even then, like I said, it would be of no use, the executive power is completely powerless, presidents cant do jack shit, they can sign decrees which are literally the lowest type of "law" that can be passed, it can be invalidated by a single deputy

Keep in mind that your donation is competing with probably several mafias and drug cartel donations. This country is a rather popular hub for drugs and bullshit.

>it's a deathray on the wallet.
you fucking deserve your communism man.
stay there for god's sake don't ruin a better country with your bullshit.

>Isn't that the guy that totally stole a ton of money from the government and ran away to a different country?

No, that's Jose "chemis" figueres olsen, son of the legendary pepe figueres. How old are you m8? Curious because people from my age would never mix up arias with chemis, nothing wrong if youre too young.

You have to understand that we have no effective private insurance so private healthcare is unaffordable for 90% of the population.

They also charge you for the TV controller's battery, that's not a joke, on the receipt you get at the end of whatever they did to you, you can see "2 triple AA batteries"

you know what the real problem with latin america and the rest of the 3rd world is? shit culture, shit education and most of all you never let the free market work.
here you two are, /polacks/ and all, saying socialism works.

i can't afford healthcare nigger none of my peers can either im 27 years old and i make like 60k a year which is not bad where i live (rural). still would rather go broke making my own fucking decisions than let some asshat working for the fucking government get any say at all.

stay in mexico or whatever, all the same to me. commie bullshit.

Well, if it's any consolation, a country held together by strings can't last forever. When it falls, maybe instead of being taken over and absorbed into another stronger adjacent country, the remnants of your former countrymen could come together and make something from the rubble of their collapsed civilization!

My bad, it sounded like that guy. I saw "third term" and the light bulb click on and remember Jose.

tells you whats worse. living in america, where they say its free, then fhe faggot coke selling cocksucking faggot town, takes 40k to let an aisin car part plant move in, for the priveledge.. of paying people under the minimum wage that aisin pays. i talked to a friend, he told me he started out at 8.50. i looked, now it said like 12bucks?

I think I'm illustrating it quite clearly that it doesn't. My bitching stems from the people refusing to unite on the single topic. No one likes waiting 3 months for an appointment where the doctor is likely to be someone totally different who will approach your concern with a totally different procedure than what you signed for.

And if you don't agree with it: Fuck you. Back to the end of the line.

our system isn't socialist, it has its own name.

And whether it fucking pains you to admit it or not it used to work, it used to work tremendously as I said, there's actual stats on this. Its the same system used on Europe, it got ruined because it got exceedingly humanitarian (i.e they will treat ANYONE who comes even if they're literally illegal, so nicaraguans come to our country by bus to get medical services for free and then they leave). It needs a few reforms and it can get back on track again.

Chemis only ruled for 1 term, it was actually explicitly forbidden in our constitution to rule for more than 1 term, but Arias wiped his ass with the constitution and ran for a 2nd one, and then tried a third one.

You have to understand Arias is the most evil and manipulative living political figure in costa rica, as I said he's a small time clinton/soros