Costa Rica AG says new joint DEA ops will target politicians, businessmen

Straits Times23 October 2026, 20:41 UTCCosta Rica

SAN JOSE, Oct 23 - 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 executives and politicians hiding alleged links to the drug trade behind respectable public profiles.

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