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Costa Rica Dealt a Historic Blow to Drug Trafficking

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Q COSTARICA — In the largest police operation in history, Costa Rica dealt a powerful blow to the country’s major cartel, the criminal organization—dubbed the Cártel del Caribe Sur (South Caribbean Cartel) by authorities. According to Organismo de Investigación Judicial (OIJ) Deputy Director Michael Soto, the criminal organization operated as a transnational network involved in drug trafficking, money laundering, and arms trafficking, with a pre…

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The authorities in Costa Rica have announced the destruction of the most important drug gang in the Central American country. Around 1200 police officers were involved in 64 searches in various provinces of the country, which were directed against the South Caribbean cartel, as Michael Soto told the investigative authorities in front of journalists on Tuesday. The gang is held responsible for smuggling drugs to the US and Europe. Soto emphasized…

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In an action considered by the authorities as the largest in history, 1,200 officials of the Judicial Investigation Agency (OIJ) and the Prosecutor's Office began before dawn multiple raids against the so-called Southern Caribbean cartel led by the brothers and extraditables Luis Manuel Picado Grijalba, alias Shock and Jordie Picado Grijalba, alias Noni, both requested by the United States that accuses them of drug trafficking.The most numerous …

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Costa Rican authorities are carrying out this Tuesday the one that they consider the largest operation in the country's history against a drug trafficking group that sent cocaine to Europe and North America, which they have baptized as the 'Cartel del caribe sur' and whose leaders were already in detention for extradition to the United States. Costa Rica's entrance carries out its largest operation against a cartel that sent drugs to the United …

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La Nación, Grupo Nación broke the news in on Tuesday, November 4, 2025.
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