FILE PHOTO: Police officers stand guard near Ciudadelas Unidas school which is now guarded 24X7 after a series of gunfights at the neighborhood in Alajuelita town, San Jose, Costa Rica, April 28, 2023. REUTERS/Mayela Lopez/File Photo
SAN JOSE (Reuters) - Costa Rican prosecutors said on Wednesday they were investigating allegations made in a Mexican newspaper that the government and drug traffickers had held talks last year in an effort to curb a spike in murders.
Prosecutors will probe a potential "breach of duties," the attorney general's office said in a statement hours after El Universal published the expose, which President Rodrigo Chaves rejected as "absurd."
