After an arrest warrant was issued against Cristiana Chamorro Barrios, independent presidential pre-candidate in Nicaragua, the business sector believes that it is "evidence of the government's unwillingness to carry out free, fair, transparent, competitive and supervised elections."
Closing of Companies: Counting of the Damages
In the first quarter of 2020, just before the crisis generated by covid-19 began, there were 72,972 formal businesses registered in Costa Rica. In the second quarter the figure fell 6% and by September there was a slight recovery.
Wednesday, December 16, 2020 Data from the Costa Rican Social Security Fund indicate that between the first and second quarters of the year the number of registered companies fell from 72,972 to 68,946. At the end of the third quarter the figure recovered slightly, with 69,412 companies registered.
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This decrease in the number of businesses registered with Social Security is reported in the context of the pandemic that caused the covid-19 outbreak and the economic crisis that resulted from the restrictions imposed by the authorities.