Writer John McPhaul takes a look at the similarities between battles in the U.S. to keep national parks in the public interest, and Costa Rica’s current dilemma of protecting its own parks.
Following deadly attacks in Boston and an attempted poisoning of the president with ricin, Costa Rica will employ 1,000 police officers, 180 intelligence agents, 150 Traffic Police officers and an unreported number of U.S. Secret Service agents to guard the U.S. and Central American presidents.
The United States has offered a $5 million reward for information leading to the arrest of JoaquÃn "El Chapo" Guzmán, the world's wealthiest drug trafficker.
U.S. involvement in Mexico’s deteriorating internal security first peaked in the mid-1980s when the cocaine epidemic in the United States turned the southern neighbor into a prosperous distribution route north.
