China Continues to Wine and Dine Costa Rica
China Continues to Wine and Dine Costa Rica, this time with bicycles and soccer balls.
A while back we wrote how China has dumped an unreal $300 million to further it political, diplomatic and investment goals in Costa Rica, by building a soccer stadium and buying bonds in Costa Rica. Their wining and dining continued last week in a ceremony at a low-income school in San José that was attended by Costa Rica’s Foreign Minister Bruno Stagno and Yu Bo, the Chinese charge d’affaire to Costa Rica.
Yes, Yu Bo had a political smile when he pointed to the 1,000 bicycles and 10,000 soccer balls for children to distributed in different rural districts to help students go to school. Now, I guess it was part of a agreement that Costa Rica government made with Chinese President last November. Hummm, one has to think what else is China committed to in that agreement?
So what is this donation for?
It is no secret China wants to help build and finance a billion-plus dollar refinery on the Caribbean side in the town of Moin. A project that has been under scrutiny by the Comptroller’s Office, an independent [watchdog] bureau that monitors government actions to make sure they are within the law.
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