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Engineer, foundation manager and gun-rights advocate Mauricio Alvarado killed inside Cartago home

From La Nación · () Spanish

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  • Mauricio Alvarado Herrera, a 54-year-old engineer and foundation manager, was killed inside his home in Guadalupe, Cartago.
  • The death is being treated, provisionally, as the result of a suspected robbery.

Mauricio Alvarado Herrera, a 54-year-old engineer, foundation manager and advocate of gun ownership, was killed inside his home in Guadalupe, in Costa Rica’s Cartago canton.

The incident occurred on Saturday afternoon, September 5. The available account says Alvarado was apparently the victim of a robbery at his residence.

The case remains described as a presumed assault. The report identifies Alvarado as the fatal victim but provides no further details about the circumstances of the killing.

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Originally published by La Nación in Spanish. Translated, summarized, and contextualized automatically by DistantNews, with a note on how the source frames the story. Not individually reviewed before publishing. How this works.

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