From the Tico Times (27-9-2002)
Residents facing eviction say new border markers
were put in the wrong place.
The incessant drizzle only exacerbates the thick
humidity enveloping 70 Costa Rican campesinos and community leaders
gathered in the local schoolyard to discuss the fate of their town.
Displaying detailed maps of the border, community
leader Augusto Rodríguez explains to the residents of México de Upala that a
100-year-old mistake by Costa Rican surveyors now threatens the existence of
their 250-year-old agricultural hamlet.
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(Aug 27, 2001)
A wall has raised a new controversy between Costa Rica and
Nicaragua.
Costa Rican authorities began constructing the two-meter-high wall in January
near the Nicaraguan border crossing at Peñas Blancas, 400 kilometers north of
the capital. The barrier sparked a diplomatic crisis, because Nicaraguan
officials interpreted it as a move to block undocumented Nicaraguan immigrants
from entering Costa Rica.
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