Costa Rica’s government on Tuesday said it had uncovered a plot to assassinate President Rodrigo Chaves on the eve of national elections, in which his right-wing party is tipped for victory. Jorge Torres, head of the Central American nation’s Directorate of Intelligence and National Security, cited a “confidential source” as informing the agency that an assassin had been paid to kill Chaves. Chaves has invited Bukele to Costa Rica to lay the cornerstone Wednesday of a new mega-prison modelled on El Salvador’s brutal Terrorism Confinement Center (CECOT).
Author: Punch Newspapers
Published at: 2026-01-13 22:10:03
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