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Costa Rica opens a Bukele-style mega-prison. Here's how it got here

Posted 10/14/26

Costa Rica has made fighting drug trafficking a main goal, inspired by El Salvador's hardline approach. On Wednesday, President Laura Fernández inaugurated a mega-prison modeled after El Salvador's …

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