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Costa Rica, once celebrated for its peacefulness, is now at a crossroads, grappling with the specter of becoming a narco-state.

Here’s the scoop: Costa Rica is on track to record 900 murders by the end of 2023, shooting up to a homicide rate of 17 per 100,000 inhabitants.

The contacts with drug traffickers were allegedly executed by pivotal figures within Costa Rica’s security structures

Economic challenges, dwindling investments in education, and skyrocketing unemployment provide fertile ground for the drug trade.

Costa Rica News – The lawyer and gay activist, Yashin Castrillo, presented the Sala IV an appeal against the Presidential decision to lift vetoes on the grounds of its unconstitutional nature.

Costa Rica News – This past week, President Luis Guillermo Solís opened a channel for annulling vetoes by agents within the Republic, a practice which hasn’t been done in the last…

Costa Rica News (Reuters) – Costa Rica’s new president, Luis Guillermo Solis, who won a landslide victory in April after campaigning against poverty and corruption, said in an interview on Friday…

Costa Rica News – Costa Rica’s president, Luis Solis, recently took office at the beginning of May and is beginning his official business. His to-do list includes clarifying the case of…