walter espinoza

Costa Rica registered 569 homicides in 2020, representing a slight increase over the previous year, according to preliminary data provided by Judicial Investigation Police (OIJ). 

Despite the reduction in homicides, the 2019 data still works out to about 11.2 homicides per 100,000 occupants in Costa Rica.

The massacre of five university students in Liberia, Guanacaste was most likely done by just one actor, according to Costa Rica's OIJ.