In her spare time, the 54-year-old community leader does work most people avoid: helping families in Alajuelita bury young men killed in Costa Rica’s drug-linked violence. In the steep streets of her hillside precario in the San José district of Alajuelita, Jiménez says shootings between rival dealers are part of daily life. When a teenager or young man is killed, she steps in to help relatives navigate the morgue, the paperwork, and the costs of a funeral. Costa Rica, long viewed as one of the safer countries in Latin America, has seen a sharp rise in killings linked to drug trafficking. After a wave of killings, including the death of a young man shot dozens of times, she sought counseling.