José María Rico

José María Rico Cueto (August 12, 1934 – April 15, 2019) he moved in 1965 to Montreal to pursue his career in international law; Son of José Rico Gaya and Carmen Cueto Narváez, he acquired Canadian nationality and later Costa Rican nationality when he married Laura Chinchilla Miranda.

In 1990, Rico met his spouse, Laura Chinchilla, while both were working as consultants for the Center for the Administration of Justice at the University of Florida in Miami. Legacies He has served as a consultant for the United Nations for Latin America and as an honorary professor in the Department of Criminology at the University of Montreal, Canada. In numerous nations (Canada, Spain, Costa Rica, El Salvador, Guatemala, Panama, the Dominican Republic, and Venezuela), he provided police consultations. He provided consulting services on a range of subjects pertaining to the administration of justice (judicial councils, judicial careers, judicial police, citizen security, police reform, public corruption, and thesaurus on criminology and criminal justice) to a number of international organizations, including the World Bank, IDB, UNDP, ILANUD, and AID.

He has written over 60 articles, over 20 books, and monographs on subjects pertaining to law enforcement, criminal justice administration, and public safety. Death On July 11, 2010, Rico accidentally slipped and fell after watching the 2010 FIFA World Cup Final with Chinchilla at a hotel in Nandayure Canton. He suffered massive fractures in his hipbone, femur, and ribs. The next day he was airlifted to Hospital CIMA where he successfully underwent surgery.

Rico was diagnosed with Alzheimer's disease in 2016. Rico died in the same hospital from complications of Alzheimer's disease on April 15, 2019, at the age of 84.