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Sat May 4, 2013, 08:26 AM May 2013

Prez and Youth in Costa Rica



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POTUS w schoolchildren in Costa Rica pic.twitter.com/b23vlNxIP3


____ President Obama visited Costa Rica, the first U.S. president to do so since Bill Clinton came in 1997. He met with a host of Central American leaders in San Jose on Friday evening.

Costa Rica declared a national holiday in honor of Obama and thousands of people, many of them school children in uniforms, lined the streets of San Jose for a glimpse of the president's motorcade.

At Casa Amarilla, headquarters of the Costa Rica foreign affairs ministry, school children wearing white shirts with blue silk shawls stood in a circle around Obama and sang to him.





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