The governments of Nicaragua and Costa Rica signed a binational agreement this Thursday so that Nicaraguan workers in the agricultural sector obtain temporary employment contracts in the southern country.
The agreement seeks to legalize thousands of Nicaraguans, mainly from the agricultural sector, who cross the border into Costa Rica every year in search of temporary employment depending on the duration of the harvest, and who usually find jobs without papers.
“We are with this agreement ensuring the coverage of the labor rights of Nicaraguans who would travel to work there: social security, health, and guarantee of mobility of those agricultural worker brothers, who year after year travel to Costa Rica to work on the crops” , announced the vice president of Nicaragua, Rosario Murillo, in a speech.
The also first lady did not refer to the number of Nicaraguan workers who would benefit from this measure, but similar agreements signed in previous years have covered more than 20,000 workers.
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The “Binational Agreement to regulate the temporary labor contracting of Nicaraguan agricultural workers in Costa Rica” was signed at the Peñas Blancas border post by the Costa Rican Minister of Labor and Social Security, Luis Paulino Mora, and the Nicaraguan Minister of Labor, Alba Luz Torres, Murillo specified.
The wife of President Daniel Ortega did not specify the procedure for Costa Rica to capture Nicaraguan workers who would benefit from the agreement and who will not have immigration problems or request documents in agricultural areas.
With more than half a million citizens from Nicaragua, Costa Rica is one of the main destinations for Nicaraguan migration, along with the United States, and to a lesser extent Panama and Spain, which in turn are the main countries from which remittances are sent. relatives to Nicaraguans.
