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Weekly Report - 08 July 2010 (WR-10-27)
COSTA RICA: US military presence sparks concern
President Laura Chinchilla has been forced on the defensive over the
recent decision by congress to authorise the entry of 46 US warships and 7,000
marines into Costa Rican waters to assist with the fight against drugs - one of
her declared priorities. Chinchilla's insistence that the move is in line with
an earlier agreement allowing the US coastguard access to national territory,
has failed to convince a public unused to military presence since Costa Rica
abolished its army in 1949.
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