American Expatriate Costa Rica

Jairo Mora, Person of the Year for 2013

Costa Rican environmentalist Jairo Mora is remembered by the people who knew him best his mother and father in this video from La Nacion. Mora was a young advocate for sea turtle conservation and was murdered on the Caribbean Coast of Costa Rica on May 30, 2013. The video shows his humble surrounding, describes his peaceful personality and talks about the two month police investigation into his death. Those interviewed complain that the security situation on the coast has failed to improve since the traumatic incident.