RICO’s Q — Once again, the movement of President Rodrigo Chaves included a traffic accident. This time it resulted in the injury of one of the traffic officials escorting the presidential caravan.
The incident occurred in Guayabos de Curridabat, on Sunday, December 1, while the caravan was headed to an official event in the Plaza de la Democracia for the Day of the Abolition of the Army.
“Two officers collided with each other. Once again exposing the fools of escorts surrounding the president,” posted Radio Zurqui on X (formerly Twitter).
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The commentary goes on “In a country of peace like Costa Rica, where we boast of being a democracy without an army, the ostentatious and almost dictatorial style of this president who walks around surrounded by escorts in the best style of African regimes is striking.
“Rodrigo Chaves, if you say so much that the people love you, what is the fear? Why do you need so many escorts? What do you owe to the country or its citizens that makes you always walk around with this paraphernalia?
“Meanwhile, Costa Ricans continue to pay the costs of this exaggeration, which also endangers those who follow orders without question. This is the second accident in less than a month involving the presidential escort.”
The style of this president is quite contrary to the style of former presidents, likes his predecessor, Carlos Alvarado, who was caught on camera by yours truly while shopping at the Automercado in Santa Ana, where we both live, well where ‘Charlie’ lived while president.
Or Luis Guillermo Solis, whom I ran into at the Parque Viva during a paella event. His escort that day was a lone agent of the DIS, the national intelligence service, detailed to protect the president.
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Laura Chinchilla, during the Obama visit to Costa Rica, made a spontaneous gesture by stopping her vehicle in the motorcade, walking some 100 meters on Paseo Colon, to greet and shake hands with people gathered to see the US president.
Some more years back, President Abel Pacheco, who lived a couple of streets from me, then in Rohrmoser/Pavas, would come across my path every weekday morning and afternoon, going to and from work at Casa Presidencial.
Pacheco’s police escort would drive the speed limit, not race like bats out of hell in moving the president.
In my encounters with presidents, covering events for the Q and Inside Costa Rica at its time, the escort details of Oscar Arias (during his second term) were rarely to be seen.
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So far, Chaves has avoided me.
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