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Costa Rica Suspends Investigation Into Who Ordered Roberto Samcam’s Murder

Summary by The Tico Times
Costa Rica has suspended its investigation into who ordered Roberto Samcam’s murder. The case against five accused of carrying out the killing continues.

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Costa Rican authorities pointed out six months ago "ideological" motives in the crime, but an assistant prosecutor considered that there are no "sufficient" elements to identify the one who ordered it, indicates the document to which the AFP had access. "It is unacceptable," said Samcam's widow Claudia Vargas to the AFP in San José. The United States has accused the government of the husbands and co-chairs Daniel Ortega and Rosario Murillo of ca…

·Issy-les-Moulineaux, France
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The Public Prosecutor's Office ordered the filing of the criminal case that sought to clarify who was the intellectual author of the murder of the Nicaraguan military and opposition to the Ortega-Murillo dictatorship, Roberto Samcam.

The Attorney General’s Office closed the case that sought to identify the person who ordered the murder of the former Nicaraguan military and opposition, despite the fact that intellectual authorship is one of the main lines of the case. “It is unacceptable,” said Claudia Vargas, the victim’s widow, to DIVERGENTS. The family questions that this route is closed when, according to her lawyer, “little or very little has been done,” while Keny Navar…

It will not be known who ordered the crime against Roberto Samcam in Costa Rica. Authorities declared themselves unable to determine it. Although for the opposition in exile, there is no doubt and they point to the regime. Costa Rica’s entry is declared incompetent to identify the intellectual author of Roberto Samcam’s crime was first published in Nicaragua Investigación.

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Nicaragua Investiga broke the news on Tuesday, October 6, 2026.
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