Pro Cafta March Draws Thousands
Thousands of entrepeneurs, students, workers and families marched yesterday along 2nd Avenue to the Legislative Assembly. Unlike the anti-CAFTA demonstrators, they left lanes open to traffic so there were no abnormal delays in the downtown area.
Employees of Café Britt, Tico Fruit, Demasa, Intel and Conair, had the day free so they could show their support for the agreement. Many companies provided buses to transport their workers and organizers estimated between 15 and 17 thousand participants.
The march concluded at 11:45 a.m. with no arrests or disturbances reported. Attending were the candidate Otto Guevara of the Libertarian Movement, the Vicepresidential candidate Laura Chinchilla (PLN), Legistlators from the PLN and Libertarians, and the ex-Ministers Alberto Dent and Rogelio Pardo.