Tweaking US trade policy could hold the key to
reducing migration from Central America
Is This the Silicon Valley of Latin America?
Now, Costa Rica is positioning itself to become a
major hub outside Asia for packaging and testing microchips. In the 1990s,
Intel built a factory near San Jose to do just that. That opened the door to
more factories and industries and, as a result, an increasingly tech-oriented
work force. Today, Costa Rica’s biggest category of exports is no longer coffee
or bananas but medical devices.
