They pass the frontier in different ways, with the work visa obtained at the end of the 90s, thanks to an amnesty that allowed them to work regularly even if underpaid and exploited, with the normal passport that allows one month visa and the daily fear of be discovered as illegal workers and with the passage totally illegal in trucks or on foot that in addition to the problems of the first and the second options, totally puts them at risk because of the possible violence of the so-called coyotes, that in exchange of a few dollars bring people beyond the line of the border illegally. They are more than a million and a half people who escaped from a poor and jobless Nicaragua to Costa Rica, where they do jobs that are most humble and hard and that the costa racans don’t want to do in exchange of a few dollars a day. The farms of excellence such as those related to sugar cane, bananas and melons, fill their coffers with dollars of Costa Rica from entirely Nicaraguan labor.
