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Eight People Involved in an International Drug-Running Ring Were Arrested by Costa Rica Police
The Costa Rica News (TCRN) - This morning the Drug Control Police of Costa Rica arrested eight members of a gang engaged in international...
The Palmares Festival Gets Crazy With 138 Arrests, Most of Which Occurred on Sunday
The Costa Rica News (TCRN) - The Costa Rican police has reported that during the festivities in Palmares, 138 people were arrested. Of these,...
Costa Rican Police Seized the Most Marijuana in Central America in 2014
The Costa Rica News (TCRN) – Costa Rica won the title for the Central American country that confiscated the most marijuana in the region,...
Accomplice to Drug Lord "El Chapo" is Facing Life in Prison for Drug Trafficking
The Costa Rica News (TCRN) – Celaya Rafael Humberto Valenzuela, member of the Sinaloa cartel, led by the arrested Mexican drug lord "El Chapo"...
Multiple Packages of Cocaine Seized at Juan Santamaría Airport
The Costa Rica News (TCRN) – The Drug Control Police (PCD) of the Ministry of Public Safety seized three packages with 978 grams of...
Central America: Synthetic drug market growsCentroamérica: Crece mercado de drogas sintéticas
MANAGUA, Nicaragua and GUATEMALA CITY – The United Nations Office on Drugs and Crime (UNDOC) has made it perfectly clear to Central America: It must do...
Costa Rica, Panama in the Crossfire
By Samuel Logan and John P Sullivan for ISN Security Watch
Colombia and Costa Rica reaffirmed counternarcotics cooperation on 16 September, underscoring the reality of...
Latin America Combats Drugs
By Justin Anthony Monarez - The last four decades of efforts to subdue cartel violence and illicit drug trafficking in the Western Hemisphere have...
