Costa Rican Foreign Minister dismissed after attending a Trump security meeting
President Laura Fernandez said Manuel Tovar’s attendance caused great strategic damage and blocked her participation in the Trump-led security meeting.
- On Thursday, Costa Rica President Laura Fernandez dismissed Foreign Minister Manuel Tovar after he attended a US-led security meeting in New York without notifying her, preventing her participation in the gathering.
- Tovar attended the event "without giving prior notice or informing" the president, an omission the government said caused "great strategic damage" to the country's interests.
- Several right-wing Latin American presidents participated in Tuesday's meeting of the "Shield of the Americas," an anti-cartel coalition launched by President Donald Trump on the sidelines of the United Nations General Assembly.
- Indiana Trejos, Costa Rica's current Minister of Foreign Trade, was named acting Foreign Minister, while fifteen coalition members issued a joint statement seeking criminal liability for members and supporters of 24 criminal organisations.
- Since returning to office last year, Trump has designated cartels as foreign "Terrorist" organisations, amid a surge in drug-related violence facing Costa Rica, long viewed as a beacon of stability.
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By Djenane Villanueva, CNN en Español The President of Costa Rica, Laura Fernández, dismissed Foreign Minister Manuel Tovar on Thursday, immediately and surprisingly, on the same day that he was scheduled to deliver the speech on behalf of the country to the General Assembly of the United Nations.
Costa Rican President Laura Fernandez fired Foreign Minister Manuel Tovar after he, without her knowledge, attended a high-level regional security meeting led by U.S. President Donald Trump. Several right-wing Latin American presidents attended a meeting of the “Shield of the Americas” initiative on Tuesday, a coalition to fight drug cartels launched by the Trump administration in March. Costa Rica’s government said Tovar’s dismissal was effecti…
A crisis erupted in Costa Rica between President Laura Fernandez and Foreign Minister Manuel Tovar over a meeting with US President Donald Trump. Fernandez dismissed Tovar for attending the meeting with Trump without informing her. The reason for Tovar's dismissal...
Fernández considered in a statement that she should have attended the meeting of the so-called Shield of the Americas, so the omission of Minister Manuel Tovar constitutes a "negligence" that caused a "great strategic damage." The meeting, convened by the US Secretary of State, Marco Rubio, took place on Tuesday on the margins of the UN General Assembly. That day the ruler was not in the United States, according to her agenda. Tovar attended "wi…
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