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Caribbean & Central America - February 2012 (ISSN 1741-4458)
COSTA RICA: Catching up with perceptions
In late January and early February Costa Rica made headlines due to two major security developments. The first, a large cocaine seizure, was great news for the government; the other, the theft of hundreds of weapons from a police depot, could have had a much more negative impact on the administration of President Laura Chinchilla if it had happened a year ago. The explanation for this is simple: public perceptions don’t always go hand-in-hand with reality and there is a time lag between changes in security threat levels and the public’s perception of such changes, regardless of whether they constitute an improvement or step backward.
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