US EditionCosta Rica’s Security Director Says Plot to Assassinate President Uncovered
Authorities are investigating a confidential tip about a contract and payment to a hitman targeting President Chaves, prompting increased security before Feb. 1 elections.
- On Tuesday, Jan. 13, 2026, Jorge Torres, director of the Intelligence and National Security Directorate, disclosed an alleged plan to assassinate President Rodrigo Chaves ahead of elections on Feb. 1.
- A phone tip prompted authorities after the anonymous woman who called alleged a contract and payment to the alleged hired hitman, with Torres saying, `What we received is confidential information that I would like to put on record in the complaint.`
- Chaves is due to lay a cornerstone on Wednesday for the new 'mega-prison' modeled on a facility built by Nayib Bukele, President of El Salvador, who is scheduled to visit.
- Torres moved to place the information on record in a complaint to the public prosecutor's office, marking an official step in the probe before the presidential and legislative elections on Feb. 1.
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Costa Rica's intelligence service said Tuesday it had uncovered a plot to assassinate the country's conservative president, Rodrigo Chavez. Prosecutors said there was no evidence that it was linked to the February 1 general election, in which Chavez is constitutionally barred from running for re-election.
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AlKhaleej TodayCosta Rica says plot to assassinate President Chaves uncovered ahead of elections
SAN JOSÉ, Jan 14 — Costa Rica’s government yesterday said it had uncovered a plot to assassinate President Rodrigo Chaves on the eve of national elections in which his right-wing party is tipped for victory.Jorge Torres, head of the Central American nation’s Directorate of Intelligence and National Security, cited a “confidential source” as informing the agency that an assassin had been paid to kill Chaves.Attorney General Carlo Diaz told report…
The head of intelligence of Costa Rica said the alert indicates the existence of a “payment of a hit man” to execute the attack against the president.
The director of the Directorate of Intelligence and National Security (DIS), Jorge Torres, went on Tuesday morning to file a complaint against activist Stella Chinchilla Mora for allegedly participating in a plan to attack the president of the Republic, Rodrigo Chaves.In a video released shortly after 5 p.m. on her Facebook account, Chinchilla denied the facts for which she is told and assured that she does not know the elements that detail the …
On Tuesday, the government of Costa Rica stated that it had uncovered a plan to assassinate the country's president, Rodrigo Chaves, just over two weeks from the presidential elections for which the candidate of the ruling Conservative party was a favourite.
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