Caribbean & Central America - November 2012 (ISSN 1741-4458)

While Costa Rica has never approached the high insecurity levels of its regional neighbours, particularly the countries of the Northern Triangle where Honduras registered 92 homicides per 100,000 inhabitants; El Salvador, 69 and Guatemala, 39 – the decline in security has long been the primary weak point of the Laura Chinchilla administration. Chinchilla has, however, finally made good on one of her initial pledges upon taking office in May 2010 – to bring down the homicide rate which closed at 11.5 per 100,000 inhabitants that year: official data compiled by the judicial investigation agency (OIJ) released in September last revealed a decline in homicides in 2011 – the first decline in six years.

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