Costa Rica, weeks before election, hosts El Salvador President Bukele to inaugurate new mega-prison

SAN JOSE, Jan 14 (Reuters) - El Salvador's President Nayib Bukele inaugurated a new maximum-security prison in nearby Costa ...
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El Salvador's Influence: Maximum-Security Prisons and Costa Rica's Fight Against Crime

El Salvador's President Nayib Bukele inaugurated a new maximum-security prison in Costa Rica, just weeks before Costa Rican elections focusing on crime issues. Despite the crime reduction credited to ...
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Costa Rica President Explores El Salvador’s CECOT Prison During Official Visit

President Rodrigo Chaves completed a two-day trip to El Salvador on Friday by walking through the Terrorism Confinement Center (CECOT), the region’s largest prison built to hold gang members. The ...

Trump threats and Bukele model on crime back Latin American progressives into corner

Latin American progressive leaders are increasingly being backed into a corner on organized crime by pressure from the Trump ...