Drug Trafficking Proliferan Clandestine Tracks: More Difficult to Intercept in the Face of Costa Rica’s Low Air Surveillance · Global Voices

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According to the DEA, Edwin Daney López Vega, alias Pecho de Rata, would have bought a farm in Sixaola, Talamanca, to receive ‘aircraft loaded with cocaine’. He is one of the ones required by the U.S. justice system for extradition. Costa Rica has had to face the problem of a silent and widespread network: the narco tracks in Costa Rica, illegal routes that have proliferated for decades in the shade of potreros, forests and farms.Pecho de Rata b…