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Nothing has changed so far I think. For those who didn’t read the report:
Violent crime and drug trafficking pose serious threats to development in Central America, UNODC warns
New report says region needs robust international support to stem crime and poverty
WASHINGTON, 23 May 2007 (UNODC) – Violent crime, much of it drug-related, is plaguing Central America and represents a serious obstacle to economic development, says a report released today by the United Nations Office on Drugs and Crime (UNODC).
“The warning signs are evident in this report – gun-related crime, gang violence, kidnapping, the proliferation of private security companies,” said UNODC Executive Director Antonio Maria Costa. “But these problems are in no way inherent to the region. They can be overcome.”
The report, Crime and Development in Central America: Caught in the Crossfire, highlights the need for greater international support for the region if development efforts are to have any long-term impact. No issue today affects the stability and development of Central America more than crime, it says. The region’s many vulnerabilities create conditions conducive to crime, which in turn undercuts growth and hampers social development.
The countries of Central America are diverse, but they have one thing in common – all are affected to some degree by drugs, crime and under-development.
Many countries of the region are vulnerable because of socio-economic factors resulting from income inequality, urbanization, mass poverty, a high proportion of youth, easy access to a large supply of guns and an unstable post-conflict environment.
They are also at risk because of their geographic position, trapped between the world’s biggest supplier of coca – Colombia – and the world’s biggest consumers of cocaine, the United States.
Read the rest of the article here: http://www.unodc.org/unodc/en/press/releases/2007-05-23.html
and the whole report: http://www.unodc.org/pdf/research/central_america_study.pdfUnder development is part of the cause of crime? Over population, a sub set of poor planning and the continued proliferation of religion, is THE problem. We are promoting religions which mandate making more babies to populate a planet increasingly unable to support the ones we already have. How about throwing out the baby (over population) with the dirty bath water (religion) and begin thinking about what to do with the mess we already have?
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Have to agree with Sprite on the religious aspect, but the biggest overpopulation issue vs. the ability to support it lies with Africa and SE Asia, both with multiple religions. Part of the problem that I have surmised is that Colombia, with its new government, has done such a superior job squashing their drug cartels, that the cartels have relocated to the more affluent central american nations such as Panama, Costa Rica and Mexico, where they have had well over 4,000 drug related murders in 2008. Juarez and Tijuana have had as many as 30+ in one week and are so dangerous that Mexicans in he US will no longer cross the border to visit relatives. Corruption in and/or lack of law enforcement is the other intangible factor.
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Does anyone have more information on the Police in Costa Rica being involved with the Drug Traffickers?
Here is an artical from June 16, 2008 on the two policemen arrested in Cahuita:
“Two policement in Cahuita, with the last names Cortés and Angulo, have been arrested on suspicion of their involvement in the murder of two men and the attempted murder of two others. Two other policemen are being sought for questioning in the same case.This follows the deaths of 23-year-old Roy Gerardo Sotera Prenderas and 16-year-old Natanael Obregón Rodríguez, and the injury of two other men who apparently escaped death only by pretending to be dead. The two injured men, brothers Alexánder Dixon Obregón, 22, and Ricardo Armando Dixon Obregón, 25, are in hospital under police guard.”
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