{"id":92239,"date":"2026-01-14T10:24:07","date_gmt":"2026-01-14T05:24:07","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/nabanews.pk\/en\/?p=92239"},"modified":"2026-01-14T10:24:07","modified_gmt":"2026-01-14T05:24:07","slug":"costa-rica-says-plot-to-assassinate-president-uncovered","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/nabanews.pk\/en\/costa-rica-says-plot-to-assassinate-president-uncovered\/","title":{"rendered":"Costa Rica says plot to assassinate president uncovered"},"content":{"rendered":"<p>SAN JOSE: Costa Rica\u2019s government on Tuesday 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.<\/p>\n<p>Jorge Torres, head of the Central American nation\u2019s Directorate of Intelligence and National Security, cited a \u201cconfidential source\u201d as informing the agency that a hitman had been paid to attack Chaves.<\/p>\n<p>The purported plot comes two weeks before the country holds presidential and parliamentary elections.<\/p>\n<p>Chaves, who is barred by the constitution from seeking a second consecutive term, has backed one of his former ministers, Laura Fernandez, to succeed him.<\/p>\n<p>Opposition groups have warned against what they see as possible interference in the election from the iron-fisted president of El Salvador, Nayib Bukele.<\/p>\n<p>Chaves has invited Bukele to Costa Rica on Wednesday to lay the founding stone of a new mega-prison modelled on El Salvador\u2019s brutal Terrorism Confinement Center (CECOT).<\/p>\n<p>Thousands of young men are being held without charge in CECOT, as part of Bukele\u2019s war on gang violence.<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>SAN JOSE: Costa Rica\u2019s government on Tuesday 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\u2019s Directorate of Intelligence and National Security, cited a \u201cconfidential source\u201d as informing the agency &hellip;<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":4,"featured_media":92252,"comment_status":"closed","ping_status":"closed","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":""},"categories":[5],"tags":[],"class_list":["post-92239","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","has-post-thumbnail","hentry","category-world"],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/nabanews.pk\/en\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/92239","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/nabanews.pk\/en\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/nabanews.pk\/en\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/nabanews.pk\/en\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/users\/4"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/nabanews.pk\/en\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=92239"}],"version-history":[{"count":1,"href":"https:\/\/nabanews.pk\/en\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/92239\/revisions"}],"predecessor-version":[{"id":92253,"href":"https:\/\/nabanews.pk\/en\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/92239\/revisions\/92253"}],"wp:featuredmedia":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/nabanews.pk\/en\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media\/92252"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/nabanews.pk\/en\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=92239"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/nabanews.pk\/en\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=92239"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/nabanews.pk\/en\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=92239"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}