Around 100 Costa Rican tourists were returned from the Nicaraguan border this Wednesday, several Nicaraguan media reported.
Apparently the group of tourists traveled with all the papers in order to visit various tourist destinations in Nicaragua, but they were denied access.
One of the Ticos who was traveling with the group indicated that the immigration authorities denied them entry for security reasons.
“We were going on tourism to León, Granada, Masaya and Managua, with the elderly, professionals, pensioners, the vast majority, an investment of more than $45,000 that we have made, and at all costs, and the Nicaraguan government tells them we do not allow them enter for their safety,” said Marco Gómez, coordinator of the trip, to Nicaragua Actual.
Many of the people in the group have visited Nicaraguan territory on previous occasions and this is the first time they have been denied passage, said Gómez.
The group of Ticos had to return to their homes and indicated that they were going to send a protest to the Costa Rican Foreign Ministry.