Costa Rican President Laura Fernández Delgado Orders Officials to Submit to Polygraph Screening

The English-language Costa Rican newspaper Tico Times reports that the country s new president, Laura Fernández Delgado, who was inaugurated on 8 May 2026, has ordered polygraph screening of senior government officials in an attempt to root out organized crime. Excerpt: President Laura Fernández has widened a controversial order requiring polygraph tests for officials involved in ... Read more The…