QCOSTARICA — Published on Diario Extra, which refers to itself as the ‘most selling newspaper in the country’, is an opinion piece by Fernando Berrocal, former Minister of Public Security (2006–2008), worth noting.
In the OP-ED Berrocal points out:
“You don’t need to be very educated or well-read to know that the word ‘crisis’ has two meanings for people: conflict and opportunity.
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“If you’re going through a bad time in life, you’ll choose to engage in conflict, even having terrible thoughts and expressing unacceptable nonsense. But if you’re an optimist, and you believe that there are always solutions and that what’s important is life, not conflict, you’ll choose to see crisis as an opportunity.
“This is also true of societies and countries. Crises are always new opportunities.
“Costa Rica is going through an unprecedented political crisis, and the climax came last Wednesday, when the President of the Republic (Rodrigo Chaves) overstepped his bounds, once again, by stating that he had 17,000 armed police officers in the Fuerza Publica (National Police) and that the OIJ (Organismo de Investigación Judicial) had only 1,000 armed agents, insinuating an armed confrontation and bloodshed among Costa Ricans, as happened in 1948.
“This insinuation is practically a crime of sedition.
“But furthermore, the premise and the comparison are absolutely false. Rodrigo Chaves does not personally have 17,000 police officers at his service, even though he is the President of the Republic. The Fuerza Publica is at the service of public order and the rule of law. Likewise, the 1,000 armed OIJ agents are not at the service of Carlo Díaz (Attorney General) or Randall Zúñiga (Director of the OIJ).
“By constitutional and legal mandate, all our police forces, without exception, are at the service of public order, the rule of law, and the system of life in freedom and democracy.
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“After the 1948 Civil War, Costa Ricans decided to live in freedom and democracy. We created the TSE (Tribunal Supremo de Elecciones) so that electoral fraud would never again occur, and we chose to invest primarily in education and public health, to avoid having an army or military coup plotters, and to resolve our conflicts and contradictions through constructive dialogue and voting every four years to elect the Executive Branch and the Legislative Assembly. Both branches of government, together, have the power delegated to and controlled by the sovereign people to make whatever reforms and changes are necessary for national progress and development.
“That is living in freedom and democracy.
“Therefore, the opportunity to overcome this political crisis, as well as the contradictions and differences regarding the present and future of Costa Rica, is in February 2026, by exercising the sacred citizen right to vote.
“Meanwhile: Citizen red alert against so much misinformation, paramilitary groups… and the national danger of drug trafficking!
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“What do you think?”
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