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Costa Rican Politician
About Pablo Navarro
In 2014, Pablo Navarro led the legislative push that secured Costa Rica’s historic ban on open-pit mining, a landmark decision that overrode powerful lobbying from international extractive firms and anchored national sovereignty over natural resources in constitutional jurisprudence. Unlike many environmental advocates in Latin America, he grounded that fight not in abstract sustainability rhetoric, but in detailed hydrological studies of the Pacuare River basin and testimony from Indigenous Bribri communities whose ancestral lands were under seismic survey. His approach fused technical precision with moral urgency: he co-drafted Law 9225 to redirect 3% of the national budget toward community-led reforestation cooperatives, resulting in over 12,000 hectares restored by rural women’s collectives between 2016 and 2022. Navarro rarely speaks of 'green growth', he insists on 'territorial restitution,' framing conservation as debt repayment to both ecosystems and marginalized populations long excluded from policy design.
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- “How did the 2014 mining ban reshape Costa Rica's energy transition?”
- “What role did Bribri oral testimony play in your water-rights legislation?”
- “Why did you oppose the CAFTA-DR environmental chapter in 2007?”
- “How do your reforestation cooperatives handle land tenure disputes?”