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LatinNews Regional Monitor: Caribbean & Central America - 27 March 2018
Costa Rica: Presidential candidates’ security offerings
Costa Rica closed 2017 with a record 603 homicides (12 per 100,000 inhabitants), up from 579 in 2016, according to figures released by the judicial investigation police (OIJ). The outgoing President Luis Guillermo Solís has linked the rise in violence to growing international drug trafficking and the issue has remained a concern during the electoral campaigning season. Ahead of the 1 April presidential second-round run-off between Carlos Alvarado Quesada of the ruling centre-left Partido Acción Ciudadana (PAC) and Fabricio Alvarado Muñoz, the conservative evangelical candidate of the Partido Restauración Nacional (RN), we look at what these candidates are proposing to do about crime.
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