Petrol-soaked massacres & death squads… drug wars ravaging celeb holiday hotspot seen in Holly Willoughby’s Netflix show

ONCE Costa Rica was a tourist paradise with unspoilt beaches and low crime – now cocaine cartels are turning its streets into a battleground.

The central American state, sandwiched between the long-troubled Nicaragua and Panama, has seen killings soar by 61 per cent in a decade – with the vast majority connected to turf wars.