Rosaura Chinchilla

Rosaura Chinchilla is a Costa Rican judge specializing in criminal law and a law professor at the University of Costa Rica (UCR). She has been in the news for discussing the possibility of Costa Rica utilizing universal jurisdiction to investigate and potentially prosecute individuals, including Nicaraguan leaders Daniel Ortega and Rosario Murillo, for crimes against humanity. Chinchilla highlighted that Costa Rica has the legal framework to address such cases, despite the absence of historical precedents in the country.