A Limón municipal police officer inspects vehicles on a road leading to Costa Rica’s Atlantic ports.
Photographer: Fred Ramos/BloombergVoters Embrace a Hardline Candidate in Costa Rica as Paradise Becomes Drug Hub
A port opened seven years ago has fueled a massive boom in exports, but also turned the country into a transit center for illegal drugs.
A container ship carrying pineapples from Costa Rica docked in Spain last month. There, inspectors opened up the cargo to find packages of cocaine worth some $70 million at wholesale.