A police operation in Costa Rica resulted in the arrests of 21 people suspected of links to an international human-trafficking network operating between Ecuador and the U.S.

Costa Rican authorities said they arrested 19 people accused of trafficking hundreds of predominantly Asian migrants to the United States. The arrests Wednesday came during multi-city raids aimed ...

Luis Manuel Picado Grijalba, 43, was arrested at a London airport in December after he was accused of shipping cocaine from Limón, Costa Rica to the US, Nicaragua's La Prensa reported.

And with the rising drug trafficking, a surge of violence has hit the nation. Homicides in Costa Rica soared 53 percent from 2020 to 2023, according to government figures.