According to the political group, the Costa Rican executive branch questioned the human rights situation in Cuba, Nicaragua, and Venezuela before the UN, yet remained silent regarding the effects of the economic, commercial, and financial blockade imposed by the United States on the Caribbean nation.

During the United Nations High-Level Segment, the government—led by Laura Fernandez—defended the severing of diplomatic relations with Havana “instead of boosting the dialogue it claims to champion,” the PVP denounced in a statement.

The text, released on social media, highlighted the ambiguity of Costa Rica’s stance at the recent meeting held at the multilateral body’s headquarters in New York, where it displayed two “deeply contradictory” sides of its diplomatic approach toward its Central American and Caribbean neighbors.

According to the statement, at the UN plenary session, Costa Rica spoke of peace, human rights, dignity, the protection of vulnerable people, the environment, and the strengthening of institutions.

However, domestically, it implements policies that undermine those very rights—manifested in wage freezes, budget cuts, the weakening of public services, attacks on education and social security, a rising cost of living, and the abandonment of thousands of families, the statement notes.

In this context, the political group described as “very serious” the use of that international platform to “reproduce a selective foreign policy aligned with the geopolitical interests of the United States,” to the detriment of the defense of human dignity.

The PVP also condemned Costa Rica’s “self-inclusion” in the US initiative known as the Shield of the Americas, what is intended to “destabilizing the region’s governments.

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