Are U.S. Taxpayers Funding Empire Building With Costa Rica? http://www.activistpost.com/2010/07/are-us-taxpayers-funding-empire.html

'In other words, Costa Rica’s lack of a military culture has been enshrined, and is part and parcel of their overall happiness. Forty-six warships, 200 helicopters, and 7000 troops being sent to patrol the coastal waters of Costa Rica sends the world a false message that Costa Rica is in some way needy of this massive loan of the American military. Furthermore, the entire region is moving away from neoliberalism, and toward solidarity, in an attempt to build a sovereign Latin America.'