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Chester’s Westworld
posted (June 12, 2020)
Commissioner Williams also discussed the larger context of his tour of the west Wednesday. He went to see first hand the smuggling patterns and cross border movement patterns on the western border with Guatemala. He made this tour two weeks after his trip to border communities up north. Today, he told us that what he saw out west was more worrying than the north - where a river runs through the border:

Chester Williams, Commissioner of Police
"To me, there is a greater risk in the west."

Reporter
"How realistic is it to expect that you all can stop what is a way of life?"

Chester Williams, Commissioner of Police
"Well it is extremely hard and to some extent unrealistic, but that does not mean that we must not try. My thing to those in Arenal when I went there if it is you have a family member over there and you live there and you live here, you must decide your mind where you want to live, at least until we get through this Covid-19 situation. We cannot have you going over there today and then come over here tomorrow, it cannot work."

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