{"id":190998,"date":"2026-06-16T10:38:43","date_gmt":"2026-06-16T16:38:43","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/confidencial.digital\/sin-categoria\/costa-rican-president-bets-on-securing-trade-relations-with-nicaragua-despite-criticism\/"},"modified":"2026-06-19T07:48:06","modified_gmt":"2026-06-19T13:48:06","slug":"costa-rican-president-bets-on-securing-trade-relations-with-nicaragua-despite-criticism","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/confidencial.digital\/en\/english\/costa-rican-president-bets-on-securing-trade-relations-with-nicaragua-despite-criticism\/","title":{"rendered":"Costa Rican President Bets On \u201cSecuring Trade Relations With Nicaragua\u201d Despite Criticism"},"content":{"rendered":"\n<p class=\"wp-block-paragraph\">Statements by Costa Rican President Laura Fern\u00e1ndez that Nicaraguans have \u201cthe government they have chosen to have,\u201d and that the situation in Nicaragua \u201ccannot be compared\u201d to Cuba or Venezuela because there is \u201ceconomic stability,\u201d reflect a continuation of the foreign policy pursued by her predecessor, Rodrigo Chaves, and a commitment to maintaining trade relations, according to analysts.<\/p>\n\n<p class=\"wp-block-paragraph\">In an interview with <a href=\"https:\/\/www.youtube.com\/watch?v=PBkif15oDQM\" target=\"_blank\" rel=\"noreferrer noopener\">NTN24<\/a>, Fernandez emphasized that \u201cNicaragua invests and maintains economic stability\u201d and that her government will continue to maintain a harmonious relationship with the country.<br\/>\u201cThey (Nicaraguans) have their internal problems and the form of government they have chosen to have. We, on our side, are maintaining a peaceful and harmonious neighborly relationship in every sense,\u201d she stressed.<\/p>\n\n<p class=\"wp-block-paragraph\">Carlos Cascante Segura, a professor at the School of International Relations at Costa Rica\u2019s National University, believes Fernandez\u2019s comments indicate that, in pragmatic terms, her administration will seek to \u201cpreserve trade relations with Nicaragua,\u201d just as the previous government did.<\/p>\n\n<p class=\"wp-block-paragraph\">\u201cIn Costa Rica, there is a perception that the departure of (Daniel) Ortega\u2019s regime is not likely to occur in the near future, and that we must try to coexist with that reality,\u201d Cascante Segura emphasized.<\/p>\n\n<p class=\"wp-block-paragraph\">Both the Fernandez and Chaves administrations have sought a peaceful coexistence with Nicaragua\u2019s regime in order to address issues along their shared border, such as illegal gold extraction<a href=\"https:\/\/confidencial.digital\/nacion\/mineria-ilegal-de-oro-define-la-relacion-entre-costa-rica-y-nicaragua\/\" target=\"_blank\" rel=\"noreferrer noopener\"> in the Crucitas region.<\/a><\/p>\n\n<h2 id=\"h-una-aparente-desconexion-con-la-realidad\" class=\"wp-block-heading\">An Apparent Disconnect from Reality<\/h2>\n\n<p class=\"wp-block-paragraph\">Carlos Murillo Zamora, an international affairs analyst and professor at the University of Costa Rica, said Fern\u00e1ndez\u2019s remarks were \u201cunfortunate\u201d and reflect a certain \u201clack of understanding of diplomatic relations between governments.\u201d He argues that her administration \u201clacks a foreign policy in general, and especially toward Nicaragua.\u201d<\/p>\n\n<p class=\"wp-block-paragraph\">\u201cThese statements by the president are not going to alter trade relations between Nicaragua and Costa Rica, between Managua and San Jos\u00e9,\u201d Murillo Zamora warned. \u201cThe problem lies in a lack of understanding of the most basic diplomatic protocol that a president of a country like Costa Rica should follow,\u201d he added. <\/p>\n\n<h2 id=\"h-nicaraguenses-no-escogieron-una-dictadura\" class=\"wp-block-heading\">Nicaraguans Did Not Choose a Dictatorship<\/h2>\n\n<p class=\"wp-block-paragraph\">Fernandez\u2019s comments have been rejected by the Nicaraguan exile community, who emphasize that they did not choose to live under a dictatorship and that economic stability does not imply respect for democratic freedoms.<\/p>\n\n<p class=\"wp-block-paragraph\">Attorney Salvador Marenco, of the Nicaragua Never Again Human Rights Collective, stressed that \u201cNicaraguans live under constant restrictions on human rights\u201d and that elections since 2008 have been \u201cfraudulent.\u201d He added that after 2018, \u201cthe human rights violations that had been systematic escalated into crimes against humanity.\u201d <\/p>\n\n<p class=\"wp-block-paragraph\">\u201cNicaraguans have not left Nicaragua because we wanted to abandon our families, our life projects, our jobs, or our homes. We have been forced to leave the country; everything has been taken from us. In exile, we have found a place where we can start over or resume our life projects,\u201d he underscored.<\/p>\n\n<p class=\"wp-block-paragraph\">The Jesuit Migrant Service in Costa Rica rejected any attempt to \u201crelativize or legitimize\u201d Nicaragua\u2019s sociopolitical crisis, as well as the authoritarianism of the regime led by Daniel Ortega and Rosario Murillo, which continues to drive more people into exile. <\/p>\n\n<p class=\"wp-block-paragraph\">\u201cCosta Rica has built its foreign policy on the defense of human rights and international law. Minimizing the Nicaraguan crisis is neither neutrality nor pragmatism. It is a profound contradiction of Costa Rican principles and of the protection expected by Nicaraguan asylum seekers and refugees,\u201d the Jesuit Migrant Service maintained in a statement.<\/p>\n\n<h2 id=\"h-solo-el-10-de-los-residentes-en-costa-rica-son-extranjeros\" class=\"wp-block-heading\">Ten percent of Costa Rica\u2019s Residents Are Foreign-Born not 25%<\/h2>\n\n<p class=\"wp-block-paragraph\">In the same interview, President Fernandez claimed that \u201c25% of Costa Rica\u2019s population is Nicaraguan,\u201d a figure that contrasts with the most recent <a href=\"https:\/\/costarica.iom.int\/sites\/g\/files\/tmzbdl1016\/files\/documents\/2023-05\/resumen_mig_cr_02_2023.pdf\" target=\"_blank\" rel=\"noreferrer noopener\">National Population and Housing Census <\/a>conducted by the National Institute of Statistics and Census in 2011. The census found that 10% of Costa Rica\u2019s resident population was foreign-born. Only a portion of that percentage is Nicaraguan. <\/p>\n\n<p class=\"wp-block-paragraph\">\u201cI do not understand the relevance of mentioning how much of Costa Rica\u2019s population is Nicaraguan or born in Costa Rica to Nicaraguan parents. It is yet another example of the president\u2019s lack of knowledge, and these are completely unfortunate statements,\u201d Murillo Zamora emphasized.<\/p>\n\n<p class=\"wp-block-paragraph\"><\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>Statements by Costa Rican President Laura Fern\u00e1ndez that Nicaraguans have \u201cthe government they have chosen to have,\u201d and that the situation in Nicaragua \u201ccannot be compared\u201d to Cuba or Venezuela because there is \u201ceconomic stability,\u201d reflect a continuation of the foreign policy pursued by her predecessor, Rodrigo Chaves, and a commitment to maintaining trade relations, [&hellip;]<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":10,"featured_media":182850,"comment_status":"closed","ping_status":"closed","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"_acf_changed":false,"_eb_attr":"","_eb_data_table":"","footnotes":""},"categories":[15445],"tags":[],"class_list":["post-190998","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","has-post-thumbnail","hentry","category-english"],"acf":[],"yoast_head":"<!-- This site is optimized with the Yoast SEO Premium plugin v27.6 (Yoast SEO v27.6) - 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