The head of Costa Rica’s National Oil Refinery (RECOPE) resigned after the Comptroller General’s Office ordered the state company to halt progress on a planned oil refinery in Moín, Limón, citing weaknesses, legal inconsistencies and bias in its feasibility study.
The 2013 report names child sex tourism and forced labor as the country's most serious human trafficking concerns and calls for more resources for victims.
Francisco José Mora, chief of nephrology at the public Calderón Guardia Hospital, was arrested Tuesday in a broadening probe of human organ trafficking.
