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

SAN JOSE, Jan 14 - El Salvador's President Nayib Bukele inaugurated a new maximum-security prison in nearby Costa Rica on Wednesday, less than three weeks before Costa Ricans elect a new president in an election that has put crime front and center in campaigns.    Read more at straitstimes.com.

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Salvadoran President Nayib Bukele, known for his anti-gang campaign, placed on Wednesday the first stone of a megaprisoner in Costa Rica, modelled on his Centre for Containment of Terrorism (Cecot), described by human rights groups as the scene of serious ill-treatment.

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The president of El Salvador, Nayib Bukele, inaugurated on Wednesday in Costa Rica the works of a new prison that the government of Costa Rican president Rodrigo Chaves builds in the middle of the electoral campaign towards the general elections of February 1, in the hope that his political movement will retain power. It is a project inspired by the Center for Confining Terrorism (CECOT), which symbolizes the repressive policies of the Salvadora…

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Associated Press SAN JOSE (AP) — Salvadoran President Nayib Bukele participated Wednesday in a ceremony unveiling the new prison Costa Rica intends to build to curb rising crime, fueled primarily by drug trafficking. The new High-Containment Center for Organized Crime is modeled after El Salvador's notorious Terrorism Confinement Center (CECOT). Costa Rican President Rodrigo Chaves had promised a prison similar to El Salvador's, a country that c…

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Associated Press SAN JOSE (AP) — Salvadoran President Nayib Bukele participated Wednesday in a ceremony laying the first stone of a new prison that the Costa Rican government plans to build to curb rising crime, primarily fueled by drug trafficking. The new High-Containment Center for Organized Crime is modeled after El Salvador's notorious Terrorism Confinement Center (CECOT). Costa Rican President Rodrigo Chaves had promised a prison similar t…

·Boston, United States
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