Costa Rica

Cell RGN-002. Structure per cc01-region-packages/REGION-PACKAGE-STANDARD.md. A region package is the auditable chain from assessment to configuration to operation for one area of operations.

1. Region Identity

Costa Rica Area of Operations. Validity window 2026-07-03 to 2027-07-03. The package carries a national baseline (governance, emergency services, law enforcement, medical, legal, and vendor annexes) with two live use profiles:

• Executive protection detail - national, centered on the San Jose metropolitan area (Annexes A-J below).
• Country OSINT monitoring - the live client profile, a real-estate development program in Palmira, Carrillo canton, Guanacaste province (primary project Parque Tempisque, HC54+F2). The monitoring configuration in config/ supplies the OSINT collection backbone (SYS-011) and the Costa Rica monitoring system (OSINT-065) through the ART-region-package seam: five AO rings (site, canton, province, national, regional), the threat and watch lexicon, the source register (feeds and curated accounts; Admiralty grades held in the contacts register and applied in the OSINT-030/036 Annex A registers), and the curated feeds and accounts.

Both profiles consume one package; the config files are tiered so the same gazetteer serves the detail’s proximity alerting and the monitoring backbone’s AO-ring scoring.

2. Driving Assessment

This region package consumes OSINT-031-country-risk-assessment.md via the ART-regional-threat-assessment seam. It explicitly pulls the following fields:

• Country risk rating (overall and by sector: crime, civil unrest, terrorism)
• Geopolitical risk indicators
• Infrastructure resilience baseline
• Consular advisory levels

The OSINT-031 Costa Rica assessment is not yet instantiated (the cell is the unfilled product template); until it is authored (RFI-RGN-002-03), the Annex A threat baseline below and the config threat weights are a provisional baseline grounded in U.S. Department of State and UK Foreign, Commonwealth and Development Office consular databases, not a computed country risk assessment.

3. Component Manifest

Component	File	Derived From	Status
Assessment	OSINT-031 template, not yet instantiated for CR	country risk assessment	GAP (RFI-RGN-002-03)
Gazetteer / lexicon	config/keywords.yaml	threat landscape + OSINT-065 watch items and AO rings	SELECTED
Feeds	config/feeds.yaml	CR media survey (national, expat, Guanacaste local, official, econ, env)	SELECTED (URLs pending build-time validation)
Curated accounts	config/x_accounts.yaml	CR institutional / news / regional X sources	SELECTED (handles pending onboarding vetting)
Contacts	config/contacts.yaml	RGN-002 annexes B-G + advance work	PARTIAL (institutions identified and graded; LE/embassy direct lines, aviation, and Guanacaste-local/vendor rows are open RFIs)
Venues / geodata	GAP	venue analysis	GAP (deferred; monitoring AO is area-scoped by ring, not venue-scoped)

4. Operating Annexes

Annex A: Threat Baseline

• General Threat Level: Moderate (L x I 8, provisional pending the OSINT-031 Costa Rica assessment - RFI-RGN-002-03). Consumes geopolitical and crime vectors from ART-regional-threat-assessment.
• Primary Threat Vectors: Opportunistic street crime, cargo theft, vehicle break-ins, and local transit hazards. Violent crime against tourists is low but rising in specific coastal areas (e.g. Limon province).
• Significant Local Gaps (RFIs):
  • RFI-RGN-002-01: Verify current crime statistics for the Escazu and Santa Ana suburbs of San Jose. [ROUTED TO: Detail Intelligence Officer]

Annex B: Emergency Services

• National Emergency Number: 9-1-1. (Grade: A1 - Standard national public database).
• Verification Date: [2026-07-03].
• Staleness Rule: Re-verify numbers and routing protocols every 180 days.
• Escalation Path: If 9-1-1 is unresponsive, route to the local OIJ dispatch desk at the number in the contacts register.

Annex C: Medical Infrastructure

• Trauma-Capable Hospital Selection Criteria:
  • Must maintain a 24/7 dedicated emergency department with an on-call trauma surgeon.
  • Must have operational intensive care units (ICU) and in-house blood banks.
  • Must have English-speaking medical staff available on shift.
• Verified Trauma Center Register:
  • Hospital CIMA (San Jose): Private facility. Grade: A1 (Joint Commission International accredited). Specializes in trauma and emergency surgery.
  • Hospital Clinica Biblica (San Jose): Private facility. Grade: A1. Full trauma capability.
• Significant Medical Gaps (RFIs):
  • RFI-RGN-002-02: Confirm emergency helicopter evacuation flight paths and landing permissions for Hospital CIMA. [ROUTED TO: Detail Leader]

Annex D: Law Enforcement Liaison Structure

• Force Structure:
  • Fuerza Publica: National police force under the Ministry of Public Security (MSP). Grade: A1 (public fact). Handles general security and patrols.
  • Organismo de Investigacion Judicial (OIJ): Judicial police under the Supreme Court. Grade: A1 (public fact). Handles criminal investigations and kidnapping responses.
• Liaison Protocol:
  • Prior to detail arrival, the Detail Leader shall register the detail’s operational dates and principal identity with the MSP Director’s office.
  • All communications with local officers must flow through the designated local security advisor.

Annex E: Communications Infrastructure

• Carrier Landscape:
  • ICE (Kolbi): State-owned, widest regional coverage. Grade: A1.
  • Liberty / Claro: Private carriers, strong metropolitan speeds. Grade: A1.
• Coverage Caveats: High speed 4G/5G is reliable in the Central Valley (San Jose, Alajuela, Heredia). Mountainous regions (e.g. Monteverde) and coastal zones (e.g. Guanacaste) experience frequent network drop-offs and blackouts.
• Satellite Fallback Rule: The detail shall carry active Iridium satellite messengers for any travel outside the Central Valley.

Annex F: Transport and Transit

• Armored Vehicle Channels: Vetted transport suppliers must be drawn from the BIZ-006-pre-vetted-vendor-roster. Vehicles must be armored to CEN Level B4 minimum.
• Road Risk Patterns: Graded B2. Highly congested urban traffic in San Jose, narrow winding roads in mountainous terrain, and flash flood hazards during the rainy season (May-November).
• Aviation Options: [PLACEHOLDER - Local charter services require vetting floor check]

Annex G: Local Vendor Annex

• Supplier Sourcing: All local security drivers, armored transport, and auxiliary guard support must be requested through the ART-vendor-roster interface.
• Vetting Floor: Prior to dispatch, the Operations Manager shall verify that every local vendor has a current registration under the Ministry of Public Security and has passed the D-01 third-party screening.
• Vetted Regional Suppliers:
  • [PLACEHOLDER - Local supplier roster entries to be populated from BIZ-006]

Annex H: Legal and Regulatory

• Firearms Carriage Laws: Firearms acquisition, possession, and carriage are regulated by the Ministry of Public Security under the Ley de Armas y Explosivos N. 7530. Private security companies are separately licensed under the Ley de Regulacion de los Servicios de Seguridad Privados N. 8395. Grade: A1 (statutory law).
• Foreign Operator Constraint: Foreign nationals are legally prohibited from carrying firearms in Costa Rica. All armed protection must be provided by licensed local citizens employed by a registered Costa Rican security company.
• Counsel-Verification Gate:
  • [PLACEHOLDER - Counsel name and verification date of local laws]

Annex I: Operator Notes

• Currency: Costa Rican Colon (CRC). US Dollars are widely accepted in San Jose.
• Language: Spanish. English is common in business sectors and hotels.
• Culture: “Pura Vida” lifestyle. High emphasis on politeness and protocol; confrontational behaviors are counterproductive in official interactions.

Annex J: Package Maintenance

• Review Cadence: Every 180 days.
• Change Triggers: Consular advisory escalation, local law modifications, or security incidents affecting the principal’s sector.
• Owner Role: Detail Intelligence Officer.

5. Gaps and RFIs

• RFI-RGN-002-03: Author and instantiate the OSINT-031 Costa Rica country risk assessment so the config threat weights and the Annex A threat level trace to a computed assessment rather than the current provisional consular-database baseline. [ROUTED TO: Detail Intelligence Officer / CS]
• RFI-RGN-002-04: Vet every X handle in config/x_accounts.yaml (confirm live and correctly attributed) before first poll. [ROUTED TO: Detail Intelligence Officer / CS]
• RFI-RGN-002-05: Retain and record local counsel for the Annex H firearms and private-security verification gate. [ROUTED TO: Operations Manager]
• RFI-RGN-002-06: Confirm or prune the config/feeds.yaml URLs on first collection run; several CR official sources need scrape/OCR rather than RSS (La Gaceta, Asamblea SIL, BCCR). [ROUTED TO: CS]
• RFI-RGN-002-07: Populate Guanacaste-local medical (Coco/Sardinal urgent care) and vendor (armored transport, licensed local security) rows in config/contacts.yaml from advance work and BIZ-006. [ROUTED TO: Operations Manager]
• RFI-RGN-002-08: Obtain direct contact lines for Fuerza Publica (Carrillo/Liberia), the OIJ regional desk, Servicio Nacional de Guardacostas, and the U.S. Embassy ACS duty line; confirm aviation and charter options (Annex F). [ROUTED TO: Operations Manager]
• Monitoring-consumer note: the config/ files are consumed by SYS-011 (collection backbone) and OSINT-065 (Costa Rica monitoring). A change to the watch lexicon, gazetteer rings, or feeds re-versions this package and should trigger a backbone config reload.
• Private security services are regulated under the Ministry of Public Security. Foreign executive protection operators cannot carry weapons or operate armed details without a local licensed agency partnership.
• Carrying of firearms by foreign nationals is illegal. Armed security must be contracted through certified local private security firms holding valid registration. Basis: Costa Rica Arms and Explosives Law (Ley de Armas y Explosivos N. 7530).
• Level 1 trauma hospitals are located in San Jose. Emergency phone system is 9-1-1. Basis: Costa Rica Caja Costarricense de Seguro Social (CCSS) directory.
• Cellular coverage (4G/5G) is reliable in metropolitan areas via ICE (Kolbi), Liberty, and Claro. Significant signal drop-offs occur in mountainous, jungle, and coastal regions. Satellite communication is recommended for rural travel.
• Vetted supplier contracts (armored transport, local drivers) must be sourced through the D-04 vendor pipeline.

END OF REGION

Model wiring

Generated from cell frontmatter at publish time.

• Related: RGN-003
• Provides: ART-region-package
• Requires: ART-regional-threat-assessment (from OSINT-031), ART-vendor-roster (from BIZ-006)