圣何塞，10月23日——哥斯达黎加将加强与美国缉毒局的合作，打击该国新近连任的总检察长所称的“隐形毒贩”，其中包括那些以体面的公众形象掩盖涉嫌与毒品交易有关联的商界高管和政界人士。
SAN JOSE, Oct 23 - Costa Rica will deepen cooperation with the US Drug Enforcement Administration to target what the nation's newly re-elected attorney general calls "invisible drug traffickers," including business executives and politicians hiding alleged links to the drug trade behind respectable public profiles.
总检察长卡洛·迪亚斯多次与总统劳拉·费尔南德斯的政府发生冲突，周一他获司法机构重新选举，连任四年。他在周四接受路透社采访时表示，如果涉案人员身居高位，调查人员绝不会姑息。
Attorney General Carlo Diaz, who has repeatedly clashed with the government of President Laura Fernandez, was re-elected by the judiciary on Monday to another four-year term. In an interview with Reuters on Thursday, he said investigators would show no leniency if those implicated held senior positions.
迪亚斯说：“（与美国缉毒局合作的）第二阶段聚焦于我们称之为‘隐形毒贩’的人。”此前第一阶段的联合行动针对的是犯罪组织成员。
"This second phase (of DEA cooperation) focuses on people we have termed 'invisible drug traffickers,'" Diaz said, after an initial phase of joint missions targeted members of criminal organizations. "These are business people, sometimes professionals or politicians, who are successful or highly visible.
“这些人是商人，有时是专业人士或政界人士，他们事业有成或知名度很高。但在这层外衣背后，是他们与这类活动的直接联系。”迪亚斯还称赞哥斯达黎加有能力将本国公民引渡至美国，称这是打击跨国犯罪的一个转折点，并表示已有6人被遣送，另有25人的引渡程序正在进行中。美国缉毒局办公室未立即回应置评请求。
But behind that facade lies a direct link with these kinds of activities." Diaz also hailed Costa Rica's ability to extradite its own nationals to the US as a watershed in the fight against transnational crime, saying 6 people had been sent and another 25 extradition proceedings were underway. The DEA's office did not immediately respond to a request for comment.
哥斯达黎加政府此前曾与美国缉毒局合作逮捕数十名毒贩，哥斯达黎加当局认为这些毒贩应对这个长期和平的中美洲国家近年来凶杀案发生率飙升负责。官员们表示，该地区是毒品从南美洲运往美国的关键通道。
Costa Rica's government has previously collaborated with the DEA to arrest dozens of drug traffickers, who Costa Rican authorities deem responsible for a surge in homicide rates over recent years in the long-peaceful Central American nation. Officials have said the region serves as a key corridor shifting narcotics from South America to the US.
费尔南德斯是总统唐纳德·特朗普的保守派盟友，在安全问题上使哥斯达黎加与华盛顿紧密保持一致，加入了这位美国总统发起的打击毒品贩运和有组织犯罪的“美洲之盾”倡议。政治分歧迪亚斯表示，美国缉毒局官员曾直接向他表达对哥斯达黎加政治和制度分歧的担忧，他说这些分歧正在阻碍打击有组织犯罪的斗争。他多次与费尔南德斯及其前任罗德里戈·查韦斯发生冲突，指责政府试图削弱司法机构。
Fernandez, a conservative ally of President Donald Trump, has aligned Costa Rica closely with Washington on security, joining the US president’s Shield of the Americas initiative against drug trafficking and organized crime. POLITICAL DIVISIONS Diaz said DEA officials had directly expressed concern to him about political and institutional divisions in Costa Rica, which he said were hampering the fight against organized crime. He has repeatedly clashed with Fernandez and her predecessor Rodrigo Chaves, accusing the government of seeking to weaken the judiciary.
尽管支持与缉毒局深化合作，迪亚斯拒绝了费尔南德斯上个月提出的建议，即哥斯达黎加可以从美国军队在其领土上行动中受益。
Despite backing deeper cooperation with the DEA, Diaz rejected Fernandez's suggestion last month that Costa Rica could benefit from US forces operating on its territory.
“如果我们专注于提供安全部队所需的资源，他们就能控制领土，而无需引入其他国家的武装部队，”他说。
"If we focus on providing the resources the security forces need, they could take control of the territory without needing to bring in armed forces from other countries," he said.
费尔南德斯政府仿效萨尔瓦多的安全打击模式，建造了一座可容纳5100人的监狱，迪亚斯在与政府的广泛冲突中对这一做法提出质疑。他说，这座监狱可以缓解过度拥挤，但本身不会遏制有组织犯罪，并强调哥斯达黎加的犯罪形势与萨尔瓦多截然不同。
Fernandez’s government has built a 5,100-capacity prison modeled on El Salvador’s security crackdown, an approach Diaz has questioned amid his broader clashes with the government. He said the prison could ease overcrowding but would not itself curb organized crime, stressing that Costa Rica’s criminal landscape differs sharply from El Salvador’s.
哥斯达黎加长期被视为该地区最安全的国家之一，其凶杀率在2023年达到每10万人17.2起的峰值，即906起凶杀案。
The homicide rate in Costa Rica, long considered one of the region's safest countries, peaked at 17.2 per 100,000 people in 2023, or 906 killings.
“这是我们历史上最复杂的时刻之一，”迪亚斯说。“（缉毒局）很清楚这一情况。”路透社
"This is one of the most complex moments in our history," Diaz said. "(The DEA) is well aware of the situation." REUTERS