Costa Rica: paradise under threat?

I had been in Costa Rica three times, I love the land and ended up buying 20 acres of land. But corrupted lawyer and so, just wanted my money, the Title was fake. I meet and heard of many foreigners that experienced the same agonizing situation as happened to me.
On my last vacation, I went to Nicaragua because I read a report from UN: REPORT ON CRIME & DEVELOPMENT IN CENTRAL AMERICA.
Quoted on page 57, we can read this "In contrast to the rest of the region, Nicaragua appears to have
become safer in the 1990s, and the rate of murder has leveled
off after experiencing a slight increase in the early years of this century.
The relatively low levels of violence encountered in the
country demonstrates that a violent past does not deterministically generate a violent future."

I found Nicaraguan's people poor but very friendly. When our car rental broke, an old man with two little girls stopped by and fix the car. I offered money but the guy didn't accepted it. We didn't have any problem with crime.
Since then, I travel to Nic. to help the poor children, and don't worry any more about a hotel because the saying "Mi Casa es su Casa" is really happens here!

On one last note. The UN Report said that most of the drug traffic happens between Colombia & Mexico by air, but little by land crossing Central America.

I had visited the south border of Nic. which is divided by River San Juan. The people there complaints that the Costa Ricans people are bringing tourists to the Nicaraguan side and saying that, that side belongs to C.R. and the land is being sold under fake papers, specially to foreigners like me!

So, please! Make a complete report by visiting and learning from the two countries.

While people in CR avoid confrontation in all areas of life we are also in denial of our problems. The main problem we now face is the insecurity due to drug trafficking. The issue with Nicaragua is one more "issue" in a long string of problems with the Nicaraguan leadership. People need to wake up and focus on what is real and not what they are being told to think, all the mess with Nicaragua is simple political posturing. Nicaragua is not a problem the drugs are! I find that the report is not really communicating the real problem in CR, the problem here is people's attitude to change and actual problem solving. We need to wake up to the 21st century and stop the denial, we are under attack from the influence of trafficking and that includes the government all the way down to the illiterate police officers that patrol the streets. The civil cervants "pocket" their money in larger quantities than do the police officers but the point is they all do it! In CR culture corruption permeates most people’s lifes, many people cheat and evade the system to the point of plainly being illegal and this behaviour is condoned by the rest of the population for the simple reason that they either wish they could benefit in the same way or are in effect “at it”! This is the problem, denial of corruption and denial of the problem. Nobody wants to rock the boat, the problem is that the boat is being rocked, or should I say cracked!
Come on people, denounce your friend, denounce your neighbour and your boss, they are all "pocketing" something, it’s our way of life, "pura vida". Oh, as you are at it, remember to denounce yourself for also being like the rest!
Pura Vida!

The previous comment is right. Nicaragua is the second poorest country in the hemisphere just because Haiti is doing worst. But that's the result of bad choices. While CR invest in education and health for his people, Nic keeps buying arms and threatening their neighborhours. Nic has not only problems with CR, but with Colombia, Honduras, El Salvador, even with Panama with who she hasn't share a common border. And has have also problems with the US, that's why the comentator make remarks to the Cia. The thing is that the US as CR are Democracies, that's why they allways sees both of us as the enemy, because there is no democracy there, just a little kingdom of 4 million poor people ruled by their King Ortega. So, in the 21st century Nic keeps doing bad choices.

Nicaragua is the second poorest country in this hemisphere.We have far more cops than they have cops and soldiers combined.If anyone starts anything It'll be CR starting it under orders of the CIA.