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Latin American Program in the News: Admite Costa Rica que capos de México y Colombia usan su territorio

The Latin America Program's event, "The Transnational Nature of Organized Crime in the Americas” was discussed in this article about Mexican and Colombian cartels entering Costa Rica. (In Spanish)

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Costa Rica se está convirtiendo en refugio de jefes de cárteles de las drogas de México y Colombia, quienes dirigen desde ahí sus operaciones y cuya presencia alienta el creciente clima de violencia que vive ese país, reveló hoy una fuente oficial.

“Nos estamos llenando de miembros de organizaciones mexicanas y miembros de organizaciones colombianas”, dijo Walter Espinoza, fiscal para el crimen organizado de Costa Rica, en un foro del centro de estudios Woodrow Wilson en Washington.

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Walter Espinosa Espinosa

Special Prosecutor for Organized Crime, Costa Rica
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Latin America Program

The Wilson Center’s prestigious Latin America Program provides non-partisan expertise to a broad community of decision makers in the United States and Latin America on critical policy issues facing the Hemisphere. The Program provides insightful and actionable research for policymakers, private sector leaders, journalists, and public intellectuals in the United States and Latin America. To bridge the gap between scholarship and policy action, it fosters new inquiry, sponsors high-level public and private meetings among multiple stakeholders, and explores policy options to improve outcomes for citizens throughout the Americas. Drawing on the Wilson Center’s strength as the nation’s key non-partisan policy forum, the Program serves as a trusted source of analysis and a vital point of contact between the worlds of scholarship and action.  Read more