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LatinNews Regional Monitor: Caribbean & Central America - 30 January 2017

Costa Rica: 2016: most violent year on record

Earlier this month Costa Rica’s judicial investigation agency (OIJ) released figures which suggest that 2016 was the country’s most violent year on record. This has been attributed to a rise in criminal activity stemming from increasing drug trafficking due to Costa Rica’s strategic geographical location, porous borders, limited security forces, and thinly-patrolled waters. According to the most recent (March 2016) US State Department’s International Narcotics Control Strategy Report (INCSR) these factors make Costa Rica a major transit and temporary storage country for illicit drugs. In one hopeful sign for the Partido Acción Ciudadana (PAC) government led by President Luis Guillermo Solís, the 57-member unicameral national legislature is in the process of approving a bill establishing a new corporation security tax.

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