Costa Rica has enacted sweeping constitutional reforms enabling the extradition of its own citizens on charges of ...

A new constitutional amendment allows the extradition of Costa Rican nationals for international drug trafficking and ...

Costa Rica’s Legislative Assembly passed a constitutional amendment in May, allowing the extradition of nationals for international drug trafficking and terrorism. With 44 of 57 votes in favor, the ...

Costa Rica just made a decisive move to tackle organized crime. Yesterday, the Legislative Assembly voted 44-13 to amend Article 32 of the Constitution, allowing the extradition of Costa Rican ...

“The country should also analyze at a second level the possibility of extending extradition to other crimes.” The proposal’s advancement comes as Costa Rica faces a rise in cases of state corruption, ...

The extraordinary story centres on the accusation by authorities in Costa Rica, filed in an extradition request to a US court, that Nolan was a 'hired killer' contracted to kidnap and torture ...

The American agency wanted to capture Grijabla in Europe instead of Costa Rica as the Central American nation prohibits extradition of its citizens in the country. The DEA wanted to capture ...

Mr Cruz, who was arrested in Costa Rica in 2022, is accused of stabbing ... where wounded up after he escaped the US, did not have extradition policies in its constitution. A now-retired police ...

Weeks, the New-York defaulter, given into its custody was the news contained in a cable message received by the Secretary of State to-day from Mr. Baker, the United States Minister to Costa Rica ...

Authorities say they found Kaitlin Marie Armstrong at a hostel in Costa Rica on Wednesday. She’s facing extradition to the United States to face murder charges in the death of Anna Moriah “Mo ...

Lazaro Cruz was arrested in 2022 when he tried to enter Costa Rica. After a lengthy extradition process, he was brought back to the U.S. and is being held at the Fairfax County jail while he ...