Costa Rica is a Central American country that has seen a sharp deterioration in security linked to the cocaine trade.
Drugs often travel through Costa Rica as a transit country, where local gangs contract to receive, store and forward them for international traffickers. Payments to subcontractors are often made in cocaine, breeding addicts and fuelling violence. The murder rate doubled in the decade to 2023.
Abstainer: A weak person who yields to the temptation of denying himself a pleasure. A total abstainer is one who abstains from everything but abstention, and especially from inactivity in the affairs of others.