Obama’s visit to Costa Rica went as expected

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President Barack Obama is the fifth President to visit the country, the last visit it was the former President Bill Clinton

Barack Obama was in Costa Rica for 22 hours and arrived at Costa Rican soil to meet with Presidents members of SICA (Central American integration system) to discuss issues of security and especially of energy exchange.

Within the framework of the meeting of SICA, President Obama had the opportunity to lead a forum with Costa Rican entrepreneurs, Presidents of Central America and other participants.

The central theme of his visit revolved around the cooperation to promote the region clean energy generation. The Minister of environment and energy of Costa Rica, René Castro held a meeting with Carlos Pascual, Coordinator International Energy Affairs of United States.

"We want to help and see what practical things we have to do to advance in renewable energy," said Pascual in a press release from the Ministry of environment and energy.

Barack Obama also emphasized that Costa Rica has a chance of belonging to the Group of "rich" countries, to be a good candidate for admission to the OECD, although not be signature no agreement, verbally Obama pledged with support through their vote in Washington, so Costa Rica entering this group based in Paris.

"We will continue supporting Costa Rica so that it continues to expand its influence," said Obama in the press conference, standing two metres of Laura Chinchilla, who minutes later thanked her "express support".

The visit of Obama was guarded at all times by the secret service of the United States and the deployment of security officers provided by Costa Rica. While all passed in a timely and effective manner.

Barack Obama was very empathetic with the Costa Rican people who at all times tried to reach the President, his arrival and his departure was noted by many outside of the Juan Santa Maria International Airport.

Posted by Costa Developers