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28/10/26 [Al Jazeera on MSN] > Costa Rica’s mega-prison receives first inmates : President Laura Fernandez inaugurated the $35m mega-prison built to house up to 5,100 inmates near San Jose.
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28/10/26 [The Rio Times] > Costa Rica Fires Minister Over Pacific Pact : Costa Rica's president fired Trade Minister Indiana Trejos on 28 October 2026 and ordered the 12-nation Pacific pact archived, not signed.
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28/10/26 [Reuters on MSN] > Costa Rica drops bid to join Pacific trade pact, sacks trade minister : SAN JOSE, Oct 28 (Reuters) - Costa Rica's government has withdrawn its bid to join the Comprehensive and Progressive Agreement for Trans-Pacific Partnership (CPTPP), a major trans-Pacific trade pact, ...
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28/10/26 [InSight Crime] > Highwaymen: How Cargo Theft Gangs Operate in Costa Rica : Cargo theft gangs in Costa Rica use customs data, GPS jammers and fake police stops to hijack trucks. InSight Crime explains how these networks operate.
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28/10/26 [The Rio Times] > Costa Rica Arrests Suspect in US Man’s Death : Costa Rica's judicial police arrested a 22-year-old woman on 27 October as the main suspect in the killing of US citizen Marc Fleming in Guanacaste.
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27/10/26 [Reuters on MSN] > Shackled, shaved and in uniform: first inmates arrive at Costa Rica mega-prison : SAN JOSE, Oct 27 (Reuters) - Costa Rica has locked up the first 123 inmates in a new mega-prison, built with the help of the Salvadoran government in the outskirts of capital San José, the country's ...
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27/10/26 [24/7 Wall St.] > Everyone Talks About Retiring to Costa Rica. Nobody Talks About the Retirees Who Came Back : Thousands of retirees sold everything and moved to Costa Rica, then quietly came back years later. The real cost of that return trip has almost nothing to do with airfare.
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23/10/26 [U.S. News & World Report] > Costa Rica AG Says New Joint DEA Ops Will Target Politicians, Businessmen : Costa Rica will deepen cooperation with the US Drug Enforcement Administration to target what the nation's newly re-elected attorney general calls "invisible drug traffickers," including business ...
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14/10/26 [Associated Press News] > Costa Rica opens a Bukele-style mega-prison. Here’s how it got here : On Wednesday, President Laura Fernández inaugurated a mega-prison that emulates the Terrorism Confinement Center (CECOT) that has become a symbol of Salvadoran President Nayib Bukele’s security ...
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14/10/26 [U.S. News & World Report] > Costa Rica Opens Mega-Prison as Organized Crime Fight Intensifies : Costa Rican President Laura Fernandez speaks during the inauguration of the Center for High Containment of Organized Crime (CACCO), a new maximum-security prison built with the cooperation of the ...