
(FILES) US Secretary of State Marco Rubio (R) walks with Costa Rican Foreign Minister Manuel Tovar Rivera prior to meetings at the State Department in Washington, DC, September 16, 2026. Costa Rica's President Laura Fernandez fired her foreign minister Manuel Tovar on September 24, 2026, for attending a regional security meeting chaired by US President Donald Trump in New York without telling her. (Photo by SAUL LOEB / AFP via Getty Images)


