Nicaragua-Costa Rica CCP Virus Dispute Stalls Hundreds of Trucks at Border

Hundreds of freight trucks were stuck on the border between Costa Rica and Nicaragua on Friday as the two countries remain locked.

Trucks are parked in a queue at the border between Costa Rica and Nicaragua, after Nicaragua's government closed the border for freight traffic, during the outbreak of the CCP virus (COVID-19), in Penas Blancas, Costa Rica on May 21, 2020. Juan Carlos Ulate/Reuters

PENAS BLANCAS, Costa Rica—Hundreds of freight trucks were stuck on the border between Costa Rica and Nicaragua on Friday as the two countries remain locked in a squabble over measures to contain the CCP virus.

A queue of trucks from across Central America, which a Reuters witness estimated at nearly 1,000 vehicles, sat waiting on both sides of the Penas Blancas border post.