Costa Rica’s 2025 constitutional reform on extradition changed the country’s legal framework to permit the extradition of Costa Rican citizens in cases involving drug trafficking and terrorism.

The reform was pursued under President Rodrigo Chaves as part of a broader effort to confront organized crime and international drug trafficking. According to the supplied news context, the first extraditions to the United States under the new framework took place in March 2026.

One of those cases involved Celso Gamboa, a former Costa Rican security minister and Supreme Court justice who was accused of drug trafficking. The supplied material does not provide the amendment’s formal legal title, legislative text, voting history or detailed procedural safeguards, so the scope of this entry is limited to the changes described in the news report.