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Demand for Illegal Alcohol Claiming Hundreds of Lives Across Region
A sizeable seizure of adulterated rum shipped to Honduras from Europe reveals...
Fake Turtle Eggs With GPS Trackers Seek Rollout Across Latin America
An experiment to track poached turtle eggs through the use of synthetic eggs...
Salvatore Ponzo and the Italian Mafia’s Infiltration of Costa Rica
The photos in the Costa Rican press showed Salvatore Ponzo, the Italian fruit...
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Costa Rica Passes Law to Destroy Illegal Runways on Private Property
A new law in Costa Rica, that looks to destroy illegal landingstrips, could provide an opportunity to control flights and close the country’s airways for drug...
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Costa Rica Boosts Plan to Track Vessels, Combat Illegal Fishing
By providing satellite data on its fleets, Costa Rica is the latest country in Latin America to take on illegal fishing, which costs...
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Sophisticated Schemes Revealed in Costa Rica Gold Ring
Raids across Costa Rica have exposed a web of front companies filtering illegally mined gold to the United States, in the kind of multimillion-dollar laundering...
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Human Smugglers Could Benefit From Costa Rica-Nicaragua Silence
Costa Rica has enhanced border security during the coronavirus pandemic to crack down on human smuggling from Nicaragua, but its measures are undermined by a lack...
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Port of Limón Has Become Costa Rica’s Drug Trafficking Epicenter
At daybreak on January 1, 2020, five men were shot from a car with a machine gun mounted on it outside a church in Cieneguita, a small town located on the outskirts...
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Latin America Under Threat of Cybercrime Amid Coronavirus
Online scams, ransomware attacks and phishing email schemes have proliferated in Latin America amid the coronavirus pandemic, exposing the dangers hackers pose to...
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Costa Rica’s Security Minister Talks Cocaine, Killings, and Organized Crime
Costa Rica has had a tumultuous start to 2020. The country seized the largest ever haul of cocaine within its borders and homicides...
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What Homicide Statistics Reveal About Costa Rica’s Criminal Future
The relative tranquility enjoyed by Costa Rica, in comparison with other countries in Central America, has been offset in recent years by a wave of homicides that...
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Why a Measly Five Tons of Cocaine Has Costa Rica Deeply Worried
The container of ornamental plants had passed through customs at Costa Rica's port of Limón and was awaiting transfer to a ship headed to the Netherlands. But...