Costa Rica's
President
Committed to
Public Safety
Presidenta Laura
Chinchilla
reiterated that
public safety
and the war
against drug
trafficking
remain priority
issues of her
government.
In an interview
with the daily, Al Día,
Chinchilla said
that measures
are being taken
to fight drug
trafficking,
including
intervention of
authorities in
high risk areas
like Limon
region and
southern Costa
Rica.
"I'm confident
that by the end
of the year we
will be able to
strengthen
mechanisms to
detect
electronically
drug
transportation
by road and we
hope to advance
with the center
of judicial
interventions
regarding
communications
to step up the
fight against
organized
crime," she
said.
Chinchilla said
to be focused on
seeking
resources and
defining a legal
framework to
make political
promises a
reality.
She also
admitted that
the veto to the
salary hike
proposed by
deputies of the
recently
established
Legislative
Assembly was a
tense moment in
her first tasks
at the helm of
the nation.
During her
inauguration,
Chinchilla cited
main challenges,
including
fighting
insecurity, open
a dialogue with
all sectors and
improve quality
in health and
education.
In particular,
she referred to
the need to
improve public
safety
guarantees while
admitting that
most of the
population
considered
violence as the
country's main
problem.
In this
relatively safe
Central American
nation, the
number of
homicides per
every 100,000
inhabitants rose
from 7.5 to 10
in the last four
years, according
to the Judicial
Investigation
Organization. |
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