Bulletin #12 Latin American Social Security

CLACSO Working Group on Social Security and Pension Systems
Latin American Social Security Bulletin
Year 6 – Issue #12 Social Security in Bolivia, Costa Rica and the United States
July 2025

Table of Contents

Presentation

KEY TOPICS

Social security and free trade agreements
Implications of DR-CAFTA on Costa Rican social security 2007-2024
Andrey Badilla Solano

Pension system in Bolivia
Features, challenges and opportunities
Mariana del Rosario Barea Soza, Raúl Alberto Chuquimia Callisaya and Alejandro Javier Cuevas Espejo

The birth of social security in the USA and its problems of financial sustainability
Jorge Tonatiuh Martínez Aviña