Linyi Baidal-Sequeira, chargé d’affaires at the Costa Rican Embassy in Washington:“It is well known to us all that security in the Central American region has been an enormous challenge for governments for years due to the incursion of drug trafficking and organized crime. For a country with limited resources like Costa Rica, facing this challenge is very difficult. The support of friendly countries is essential to meet the objectives set in terms of security. Thanks to our government’s commitment, transparency, effective use of the support received through cooperation mechanisms and the good performance of the Ministry of Public Security, the police and the Costa Rican institutional structures working against crime, a new donation for Costa Rica was possible. This donation was announced during the official visit of the commander of the U.S. Southern Command, Gen. Laura Richardson, to San José. The cooperation between the United States and Costa Rica on security issues has been…”