Q COSTARICA — On Wednesday morning, people woke up to shocking scenes: a pickup truck slammed right into the León Cortés monument on the east side of Parque Metropolitano La Sabana. The crash happened around 3:30 a.m. The driver, a 19 year-old man with the last name Araico, seen in...

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