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200 Trucks Stuck To Cross Into Nicaragua Following Border Closing

Some 200 trucks are still stuck in “nowheres” land waiting to cross into Nicaragua from Costa Rica following the closure of the border by Nicaraguan officials on Friday.

The border was closed for about 24 hours to all commercial truck traffic in protest of Costa Rica’s policies on increased controls of Nicaraguan beans into Costa Rica.

The closure of the border to trucks on the Costa Rican side to cross into Nicaragua has meant the loss of hundreds of thousands of dollars in spoilage of perishable goods and thousands more of lost time and costs to hang out at the border with nothing to do but wait.

“Nowheres” land is described as the territory between the immigration and customs border controls between the countries, where once checked out of one, there is lapse to check into the other.

The closure on the part of the Nicaraguans stranded hundreds of tractor trailers loaded with goods to Nicaragua and points north to Mexico.