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Costa Rica Foreign Minister Firing Over Trump Meeting
Costa Rica's president fired her foreign minister for attending a Trump-led Latin America security meeting without her knowledge, exposing tensions around the US's new 'Shield of the Americas' anti-cartel alliance.
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Costa Rica's President Laura Fernandez fired her foreign minister, Manuel Tovar, for attending a meeting on Latin America's security led by US President Donald Trump without telling her (SCMP, September 24). The meeting, part of Trump's anti-cartel "Shield of the Americas" alliance, took place on the sidelines of the UN General Assembly (SCMP, September 24). Fernandez said she should have been the one to attend and that Tovar's failure to consult her caused "great strategic damage" (SCMP, September 24).