Costa Rica’s president has canceled his trip to New York

“As President of Costa Rica, I feel obligated to remain in a state of emergency, to seek adequate measures and resources to counteract the massive material and human damage, including accompanying the families of the nine citizens who unfortunately lost their lives in the accident,” Cambronero said.

Chavez was going to participate in the 77th session of the United Nations General Assembly, where he will deliver a speech next Tuesday, as well as attend the Education Transformation Summit tomorrow.

In this regard, the President noted that Costa Rica would be very well represented at that meeting by First Lady Cigne Zecate; Minister for Foreign Affairs, Arnoldo André; Minister of Public Education Anna Katharina Mueller and Minister of Foreign Trade Manuel Tovar.

The Presidential House confirms that members of the Costa Rican delegation will attend all the President’s commitments, which were previously arranged as part of the tour to the United States.

A media source reported that “Chávez will attempt to end various offers of extraordinary aid to deal with the emergency, including millionaire donations from the United States Embassy and the Central American Bank for Economic Integration, among others.”

Likewise, he continues, the head of Tico will coordinate the assistance measures from the National Emergency Committee, the Ministry of Transport, Water and Sanitation Canals and other institutions dealing with the national emergency, which were issued due to the scale of the damage caused by the rains from recent days.

“The most important thing for me as president is restoring the well-being of affected citizens, working to ensure safety on our national roads and implementing measures to help hundreds of affected families. Chávez stressed the need to ratify his decision not to leave the country at this time “what is more urgent than that.”

In addition, the President has decreed three days of national mourning in solidarity with the families of the nine people who lost their lives in the landslide caused by torrential rain that dragged a double-decker bus off a cliff in Cambronero, Alajuela.

The Red Cross indicated that this is the initial report of the victims until Sunday evening, as rescue efforts are continuing at the scene of the crash of the bus and other light vehicles, including a motorcycle, at a distance of 80 meters. .

Finally, given continuing heavy rains in most of the national territory, the National Football League on Saturday declared an orange alert for Costa Rica, with the exception of the Caribbean coast.

rgh / ale