US EditionGuatemala Begins Building Maximum Security Prison for Gang Members : The Tico Times | Costa Rica News
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Guatemala City. An appeals chamber in Guatemala provisionally suspended the construction of “El Triunfo” (El Triunfo) on Saturday, a maximum security prison designed to house 2,000 high-risk prisoners, mainly gang members. The judicial decision goes beyond a day after the president, Bernardo Arévalo, laid the first stone of the prison. The work was projected on a farm confiscated from drug trafficking in Izabal, an area 290 kilometers north-east…
The new prison will house around 2,000 high-risk prisoners, mainly gang members, and meet international standards
Guatemala began this Friday the construction of a prison of
The president of Guatemala, Bernardo Arévalo, announced this Friday that the country will have its own megacarcel, following the trend of the governments of Honduras, Costa Rica and El Salvador. The penitentiary center, called “El Triunfo”, will have capacity for 2,000 prisoners of maximum danger and will be located on a farm expropriated by drug traffickers Mario Ponce in the department of Izabal, the northeastern of the country.
GUATEMALA CITY (AP) — Guatemalan President Bernardo Arévalo inaugurated on Friday the construction of a maximum security prison on an estate extinguished by authorities of a drug trafficker extradited and convicted in the United States.
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