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“Fully trained and full of conviction, the Costa Rican Coast Guard will return to their country prepared and ready to play a transformational role protecting its waters and safeguarding Costa Rica territory from a scourge of drug trafficking, human trafficking, illegal fishing and other illicit activities.”-Sharon Day, U.S. ambassador to Costa Rica
Costa Rican Coast Guard accepts the gift of two patrol boats in Baltimore, Maryland, 13FEB2018
The U.S. Coast Guard gave (free of charge) the Costa Rican navy two 33.5 meters (110 feet) long patrol boats. Apparently ‘small gifts’ were also exchanged at the ceremony as the U.S. Coast Guard logged accounting records of such gifts.
The U.S. ambassador to Costa Rica, Sharon Day, claims the gift of $18-million USD worth of Island Class patrol boats to the central American country is going to have a ‘global impact’ in the new war on drugs.
According to The Baltimore Sun, Costa Rica’s public security minister claims there is an expected “cocaine tsunami” coming our way!
This donation of Island Class patrol boats is not the first. In the recent past Pakistan and Georgia also got two each of the U.S. taxpayer funded Coast Guard cutters.
Rear Admiral Michael J. Haycock explained that if they can’t sell decommissioned boats then they just give them away, because, he claims, scrapping them would actually cost more!
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