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Nicaraguan Prisoners Repatriated
Seven Nicaraguans serving time in prison in
Costa Rica were sent home to their native
land yesterday, to serve out their prison
term in Nicaragua.
The prisoners benefited from an agreement
wich Costa Rica has with a number of
countries to repatriate prisoners.
The seven, that included those involved in
the 1994 kidnapping of executives of Cabo
Marxo in Pital de San Carlos, were handed
over by Costa Rica correctional officials to
their Nicaraguan counterparts at the Peñas
Blancas border crossing.
In addition to the kidnapping, the prisoners
were sentenced to murder, extortion, rape
and drug trafficking.
A total of 23 Nicaraguans have been
repatriated this year.
According to correctional official records,
a total of 9.300 people are behind bars in
Costa Rica, of which 1.200 are foreigners,
of which the majority of the foreigners are
Nicaraguan nationals.
Among the other foreigners, they include 87
Colombians, 19 Panamanians, 9 Salvadorans, 9
Guatemalans, 9 Mexicans and 8 Americans.
This year alone a total of 305 Nicaraguans
(276 men and 29 women( were sentenced in
Costa Rica for crimes ranging from murder to
drug trafficking, the majority of the
sentences handed down by the courts.
In the past nationals from England like
Robert Dodd and John Anthony Springer, both
sentenced on drug trafficking charges, have
gone home to serve out their sentences.
Claudio Robernas Barrantes and María Aniceta
Nevado, from Spain have gone home.
Canadian Stanley Epinal, Holland's John
Ricardo Desanders, Italian Nidia Ben Allige
and American Carl Kenev have all been
repatriated after being sentenced in Costa
Rica.
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