75 years ago, Costa Rica abolished its Army. Demilitarization, however, was more of a myth than reality. In NACLA Report, Markus-Michael Müller and I show how hybrid policing based on counterinsurgency shapes security governance in the country until today.
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The Myth of Demilitarization in Costa Rica
Published in NACLA Report on the Americas (Vol. 55, No. 4, 2023)