Image of money confiscated from suspects. CRH
The period in which Costa Rica was just a transit country for the narcotics trade are long gone, and the trafficking phenomenon has begun to evolve in different ways. According to Attorney General, Jorge Chavarria we are now seeing a change were Costa Ricans are in control of regional gangs that had before been composed of Colombians and Mexicans. Evidence of the collaboration was revealed by a recent narcotics conspiracy in the banking sector and the discovery of a clandestine bases in the northern Caribbean, equipped with aircraft fuel, assault rifles, rocket launchers, cash and ammunition. In 2013, a total of 18 tons of narcotics were confiscated