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INTERACTIVE: A timeline of the Chinchilla administration’s scandals

President Laura Chinchilla leaves office Thursday as the least popular leader in Latin America for the second year in a row. Check out our timeline of the scandals and resignations that dealt a black eye to Chinchilla’s government.

Laura Chinchilla’s environmental report card

A comprehensive Tico Times analysis of the environmental successes and failures by the outgoing National Liberation Party administration of Laura Chinchilla. The first part in a two part series about the future of the environment in Costa Rica.

4 things Chinchilla did right

Though perhaps not as entertaining as the blunders that may come to define the Chinchilla years, here is a list of her administration's actions that Doña Laura wants to promote.

The good, the bad and the ugly of President Chinchilla’s security legacy

For an administration that was largely weighed down by scandal and perceived mismanagement, public security has ended up as President Laura Chinchilla’s most likely legacy for Costa Rica.
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