Costa Ricans to get U.S. training
NZPA-AP Washington Two dozen United States military advisers will spend three months in Costa Rica, helping to train the country’s security forces in basic military skills, the Pentagon says. Members of a United
States Army Special Forces detachment in Panama would oversee the training at a small Costa Rican village near the Nicaraguan border starting on May 15, the Pentagon said yesterday. The advisers were being sent at the request of the
Costa Rican Government. Costa Rica lies directly south of Nicaragua, where the Sandinists came to power in 1979. The new training effort was announced less than a week after President Ronald Reagan imposed a trade embargo on Nicaragua.
Costa Rica has long been the most stable democracy in Central America and has lived without a standing army since 1949. As tensions in the region have grown in recent years it has begun efforts to strengthen its small internal security force, or Civil Guard.
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