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Costa Rica’s President Cuts Off Diplomatic Ties With Cuban Regime

‘We must cleanse the hemisphere of communists,’ Costa Rica’s President Rodrigo Chaves said Wednesday.
Costa Rica’s President Cuts Off Diplomatic Ties With Cuban Regime
Costa Rican President Rodrigo Chaves speaks to supporters at his headquarters in San José, Costa Rica, after winning a presidential runoff election, April 3, 2022. AP Photo/Carlos Gonzalez, File
Kimberly Hayek
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Costa Rica’s President Rodrigo Chaves revealed Wednesday that his government has ceased recognizing the legitimacy of Cuba’s communist regime and ordered the Cuban embassy in San José to close.

In a press conference in Peñas Blancas during the inauguration of new U.S.-donated mobile drug scanners at the northern border with Nicaragua, Chaves said the decision was a stand against the Cuban government’s oppression of its people.
Kimberly Hayek
Kimberly Hayek
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Kimberly Hayek is a reporter for The Epoch Times. She covers California news and has worked as an editor and on scene at the U.S.-Mexico border during the 2018 migrant caravan crisis.