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Costa Rica Inaugurates Cacco, Maximum Security Prison Inspired by the Bukele Model

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The new prison has capacity for 5,100 inmates. "I am sure that today we are marking a before and after in prison and national security as a whole. "From this day our country will be a world leader in prison security. Today more than ever we will defend our homeland with all our strength," said the president of the country, Laura Fernández.

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With capacity for 5,100 inmates, the Government of Laura Fernández presents CACCO as a “historical site” to deal with drug trafficking

·Madrid, Spain
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The government of Costa Rica inaugurated on Wednesday a prison with a capacity of 5.1 thousand inmates, as part of a strategy to combat organized crime through repression and mass incarceration. The site is mirrored in the mega-prison held by El Salvador, which helped in the Costa Rican project. — The Coco will force criminals to face a new model: a model of rigour in the fight against crime. Costa Rica will become a global reference in prison s…

·Rio de Janeiro, Brazil
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The government of Costa Rica inaugurated on Wednesday, 14, the Center for High Containment of Organized Crime (Cacco), prison with places for 5,1 thousand prisoners. President Laura Fernández presented the unit as a central part of the plan to combat factions linked to drug trafficking. The project is based on Cecot, maximum security prison of...

·São Paulo, Brazil
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The recognition took place during the official opening ceremony of the CACCO, in Costa Rica, attended by El Salvador’s Security Minister, Gustavo Villatoro, and Defense Minister René Francis Merino Monroy. In his speech, Fernández Delgado highlighted the Salvadoran collaboration and thanked President Nayib Bukele directly for the support [...]

The Center for the High Containment of Organized Crime (CACCO) was inaugurated less than 24 hours after Nayib Bukele announced possible conditional releases of thousands of detainees in El Salvador under the Emergency Regime, amid reports of innocents being imprisoned. Among the creators of content, praise to the Salvadoran president and hard-handed speeches, President Laura Fernández and her predecessor, Rodrigo Chaves, took advantage of the op…

Laura Fernandez inaugurated on Wednesday a high-security detention centre modelled on Salvadoran prisons. The right-wing leader sees it as the first... Read more In Costa Rica, a prison inspired by the model Bukele emerges from the ground appeared first on Le Singulier.

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Globo broke the news in Rio de Janeiro, Brazil on Wednesday, October 14, 2026.
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