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There certainly are expenditures on the National Guard, so there ought to be some expenditures figure for that. When there is a border incident, such as that with Nicaragua in 1990, it's the National Guard who shows up -- my point being that it serves some functions of an army. Presumably a figure should be given with an asterisk (as the expenditures for the national guards of other nations probably aren't included in these estimates).

The article title implies that CR has a military. I think it shoulkd be changed to something like Abolition of military in Costa Rica, SqueakBox 15:23, 15 September 2005 (UTC)

see: http://www.ciponline.org/dialogue/9803es03.htm Basically it states that our (costarican) police force does fullfill some military functions regarding border patrol. It's by one of our political analyst's that have advice to the legislative assembly. It also refers to the need of regulation regarding police force and it's military functions regarding this aspect. --Crio de la Paz 00:35, 3 May 2006 (UTC)

Also in http://www.poder-judicial.go.cr/salatercera/leyes/leypenal/leydepolicía.htm you can read the "general law of police" of Costa Rica (of 1994). There's a reform of 2005 that states there actually is a police body specifically in charge of border patrol. --Crio de la Paz 00:52, 3 May 2006 (UTC)

In http://www.pgr.go.cr at SCIJ (SINALEVI) our "Procuraduría General de la República" (roughly office of the general procurator) has a database of costarrican law that's easy to search. --Crio de la Paz 00:52, 3 May 2006 (UTC)simy sucks!1

[edit] Is the Guardia Civil an armed force?

what are the military duties that it forms? In some countries border patrol is a police role, or at least performed by a nonmilitary organization. The COIN seems like a military unit to me, but I don't know much about it. Rds865 (talk) 05:03, 3 April 2008 (UTC)