A total of 41 African immigrants, some of them professionals, who risked their lives crossing the Atlantic in search of a better life, found themselves detained in Costa Rica on Friday waiting to be accepted as refugees so they can get a fresh start.
This is a phenomenon repeated more and more often in countries like Colombia, Panama, Nicaragua and Costa Rica, which the authorities of those countries attribute to people-trafficking rings that promise to take undocumented migrants to the United States or Canada, only to leave them stranded on these tropical coasts.
Costa Rican authorities believe that these 41 Africans were brought here by traffickers to whom some paid as much as $7,500, while defenders of human rights recall that they come from areas shattered by wars and conflicts.
The Ethiopian "D.G." arrived on June 25 in Costa Rica on a boat from Venezuela, he told Efe. He and three other Africans came ashore in the Caribbean province of Limon, at the end of a week when authorities found 28 other Africans stranded in different parts of the country.
African migrants nabbed in Costa Rica seek new life
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