Immigration officials in Costa Rica are considering restricting Mexican and Guatemalan visas to enter the country.
The vice-ministro de Gobernación, Mario Zamora and former director of the immigration service, made the announcement Monday evening following the detention of the two Mexican nationals involved in the crashed "narco avioneta" headed for Guatemala Sunday morning.
"We believe it is time to assess the possibility of more restrictive entry of citizens of both nationals (Mexico and Guatemala) as we have done with Colombia and more recently with Jamaica", said Zamora.
Currently Mexican and Guatemalan nationals have no restrictions on entering Costa Rica.
The vice-ministro explained that the measure would be a "preventive" one given the number of cases of drug trafficking involving nationals of both countries and their ties to organized crime.
On March 9, 2009, a helicopter with 396 kilograms of cocaine crashed in the Cerro de la Muerte (between San José and Perez Zeledon).
The drugs were believed to belong to the Sinaloa cartel in Mexico.
The crashed helicopter, like the light plane that crashed on Sunday, had operations at the Pavas airport.
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