TICO TIMES
Óscar Arias, Costa Rica’s former two-term president and a Nobel Peace Prize winner, was accused Monday of sexual assault.
But the internationally recognized politician has also been mired in controversy surrounding a 2008 executive decree he issued that allowed Industrias Infinito S.A. to begin construction of an open-pit gold mine at Crucitas in northern Costa Rica.
Arias’s decree deemed the mine “in the public interest” despite a 2002 court ruling that had established a moratorium on open pit
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