Costa Rica expects Nicaragua’s crisis to be addressed during the visit that the US Secretary of State, Marco Rubio, as part of his tour of Central America will be made on Tuesday.
Costa Rican Foreign Minister Arnoldo André Tinoco, told the Voice of America that “we assume that within the conversation of the geopolitical situation of the region, (Nicaragua’s theme) can become one of the issues that are discussed.”
Rubio started his tour on Saturday in Panama and nowIt is located in El Salvador.
The Costa Rican Foreign Minister indicated that another point that could be on the table would be the Nicaraguan immigration issue and that directly impacts the neighboring country, now that the United States He pauses the Safe Mobility Program and the humanitarian parole.
“It is very expensive, very expensive for our countries to have to attend, in addition to the national population, migratory flows in both directions and in that there have been programs which are now suspended as part of a generalized suspension of 90 days,” said Tinoco. “We will have to discuss with the US authorities what they will be of interest and which not to reactivate them,” he said.
Nicaragua is one of the main migrant emitting countries in Costa Rica and this has sharpened with a social crisis That one lives in this Central American country, after protests against the government of Daniel Ortega in Managua.
Between 2018 and 2024, more than 850,000 Nicaraguans came out, mostly to the United States, in a sudden change of the historic career to Costa Rica, according to data provided by Manuel Orozco, director of the Migration, Remittance Program and Development of Inter -American Dialogue.
Pressures for charter flights?
Juan Sebastián Chamorro, Nicaraguan presidential excandidate, told the Voa That Rubio’s visit to Central America will be to assess actions against the administration of Ortega for being a country that used “migration as a political weapon against the United States” upon receiving charter flights from all over the world with immigrants who continued their way to Washington.
“Nicaragua’s theme is going to be part of the Republican Administration because Daniel Ortega and Rosario Murillo used the national territory for being a bridge to send migrants around the world, through Charter flights, to follow their destination to the United States. They used migration as a political weapon and that did not go unnoticed in the Republican administration, “Chamorro said.
“Nicaragua will be on the agenda not because of the size, but for the migratory theme.”
Nicaragua flexible the requirements and eliminated the visa to a dozen countries With high migratory flow, such as Cuba, this according to the critics of the Sandinista government, as a form of pressure to Washington for the sanctions imposed against the administration of Daniel Ortega.
The Ortega Government, indicated for human rights violations, has also aligned countries such as Cuba, China and Russia and has issued harsh criticism and provocations to the United States for the actions undertaken by the White House against Managua.
On Rubio’s visit, the Sandinista government has not made statements.
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