What the? US Troops to Costa Rica to fight drug cartels?

This really smells like an end run around public in US and Costa Rica! For the resons stated or as effort to pressure Venezuela? Need more info.

Amplify’d from www.cipamericas.org

The Lowest Form Of Military Aggression

On July 1, 2010, Costa Rica’s Legislative Assembly authorized the U.S. military to undertake policing duties in Costa Rica, based on an expired “Cooperation Agreement.” Just one small problem: Costa Rica abolished its army in 1949 and since then has had no national military forces.

Despite the legal limitations in the country, and despite a constitutional obligation to invest only civilian police with the duties of monitoring and enforcing our public order, the submissive legislative assembly–dominated by the ruling parties–is allowing the U.S. military to play war games on our sovereign land as if it were a game of chess. Read more at www.cipamericas.org

 

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