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The Costa Rican intelligence agency, the Directorate of Intelligence and Security, reports to the Ministry of the Presidency, which has generated controversy. [3] [4] Said portfolio is one of the most important in the Costa Rican presidential cabinet.
Public Force of Costa Rica. National border patrol, security, and integrity. Paramilitary law enforcement, counter insurgency, and riot control. The Public Force of Costa Rica ( Spanish: Fuerza Pública de Costa Rica) is the national law enforcement agency of Costa Rica, whose duties include internal security and border control. [ 1]
This is a list of intelligence agencies by country. It includes only currently operational institutions. It includes only currently operational institutions. An intelligence agency is a government agency responsible for the collection, analysis , and exploitation of information in support of law enforcement , national security , military , and ...
Costa Rica has no military but maintains a domestic police force and a Special Forces Unit as part of the Ministry of the President. The Economist Intelligence Unit rated Costa Rica a "full democracy" in 2022. [3] [needs update] According to the V-Dem Democracy indices Costa Rica was in 2023 the most electoral democratic country in Latin ...
Dirección de Inteligencia. The Intelligence Directorate ( Spanish: Dirección de Inteligencia, DI ), commonly known as G2 and, until 1989, named Dirección General de Inteligencia ( DGI ), [ 3] is the main state intelligence agency of the government of Cuba. The DI was founded in late 1961 by Cuba's Ministry of the Interior shortly after the ...
The Costa Rican government refused his attempt to return during 1978, while Rodrigo Carazo was President. During 1982 Vesco tried again to return to Costa Rica, but President Luis A. Monge denied his entry. [11] He lived in Nicaragua for a while, while the Sandinista government was in power. Each of these countries accepted him, hoping that his ...
A number of writers have alleged that the United States Central Intelligence Agency (CIA) was involved in the Nicaraguan Contras ' cocaine trafficking operations during the 1980s Nicaraguan civil war. These claims have led to investigations by the United States government, including hearings and reports by the United States House of ...
The Western Hemisphere Institute for Security Cooperation ( WHINSEC ), formerly known as the School of the Americas, [ 2] is a United States Department of Defense school located at Fort Moore in Columbus, Georgia, renamed in the 2001 National Defense Authorization Act. The institute was founded in 1946; by 2000, more than 60,000 Latin American ...