Naw! Solis is going to take a trip on Costarricense colon and go to Washington, DC .. A wasted trip except for his posse and expense account . So sad most Tico’s can hardly make ends meet.

A bakery here small shop pays over 800,000 for electricity and 250,000 for water How many loaves of bread do you have to sell just to pay this, not to mention salaries, rent and the dreaded Caja. Wonder here how everything so expensive especial for the Tico’s.

I certainly don’t know all of the corrupt players throughout. But, the ones we have concretely identified in this specific case are clearly highlighted. Extortionists!!

This case is being pushed from behind the scenes by some pretty powerful players. Top brass in CR political circles are well aware of the situation. Just as DOJ in the USA are. And this has created a very uncomfortable and difficult situation between nations and government institutions who work together on the “drug war”.

The powers to be know they have an extremely difficult situation to remedy. And Ben, you may be exactly right. I am well aware of that. This case is already going on 5 years. But the empirical evidence against these people will eventually be what dooms everyone involved. Including those who have helped try and cover their tracks here. Eventually this case will probably have to be resolved by the Inter-American Court of Human Rights. Where the issue has already been well documented over the last few years at its Wash DC Headquarters. At that point, we will be able to use our own lawyers from the USA, and not be totally dependent on help from here.

If this case goes all the way to the Inter-American Court, we are very confident of a better result. Lawyers within CR are useless in this situation, as they will not take these people on.

Essentially, Costa Rica can continue to protect these corrupt people from what they did, by continuing to kick the can down the road. Or they can adequately apply justice to this situation. This case is only the tip of the iceberg for those who are involved.

One way or another this case will continue to progress, and as those involved in the internal investigation know…the evidence against these people is profound and absolutely irrefutable. So they will have a very difficult job in not indicting them for trial. But if they do choose not to indict, surely they know this case will have strong reflections on them.

In these accused peoples official declarations which were given last month to internal investigators, they each committed perjury. The internal investigators know this and have in their hands the concrete evidence to prove it. And they also know that we are not very trusting of the system at this point. Soon we will see what kind of integrity these internal investigators have. We also have them stuck between a rock and a hard place with some other evidence we still have not made available to them. Consider this a test of their integrity…

True, the more of this that goes on, the more hangers on will be tempted to thuggery, but surely neither curfews nor sending Nicas back will attack the root problem. Neither will outfitting cops with more military gear and training. By the time there is shooting in the streets, the battle is already lost.

Organized crime is by definition, duh, organized, and the only way to combat it is to unravel the organizations. This is white collar police work, not street crime fighting.

I wish I were as sure as SDPUS is in identifying specific culprits in government. I just myself don’t know the facts.

However, he is on the right track. For organized crime to exist, the cooperation of non-criminal organizations is usually required. Odds are some of this cooperation comes from public officials, though it would seem to me that the cooperation of banks is also necessary.

Mostly importantly, railing against the alleged corruption of almost everyone in government or elsewhere gets us nowhere. Most people in all occupations follow the herd. The challenge to identify the people leading this herd.

Of course, it would help a lot Costa Rica just legalized most currently illegal drugs too. This would deprive organized crime of its profits and thereby eliminate most of the corruption.