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Costa Rica's $35M CACCO mega-prison opened Oct. 14, targeting organized crime leaders still running gangs from inside the country's overcrowded prisons.
News Costa Rica » Alajuela » Government: Costa Rica opens a Bukele-style mega-prison. Here's how it got here
SAN JOSÉ, Costa Rica — Costa Rica, considered for decades a peaceful enclave in turbulent Central America, has now made fighting drug trafficking one of its main goals. And it is turning to one of its ...
News Costa Rica » Alajuela » Government: Costa Rica opens mega-prison as organized crime fight intensifies
Costa Rica inaugurated a maximum-security prison on Wednesday as it stepped up its fight against organized crime after a surge in killings in what was long one of Latin America's safest countries.
News Costa Rica » Alajuela » Government: Costa Rica adopts Bukele’s penitentiary model with the inauguration of a new mega-prison
With capacity for 5,100 inmates, President Laura Fernández’s government presents the CACCO as a ‘historic milestone’ in the fight against drug trafficking ...
News Costa Rica » Alajuela » Government: Built on Bukele’s Blueprint: What Costa Rica’s $35M Megaprison Means for the Region’s Security Playbook
Costa Rica’s CACCO megaprison opened Oct. 14 with 5,100 beds and immediate constitutional challenges. What the Sala IV rules could decide next.
News Costa Rica » Alajuela » Government: Costa Rica completes construction of its 'megaprison' inspired by Bukele's model
The Costa Rican government announced on Monday that it will inaugurate the High-Security Prison for Organized Crime (CACCO) on Oct. 14. The "megaprison" has a capacity of 5,100 inmates and was ...
News Costa Rica » Alajuela » Government: Costa Rica opens mega-prison as Bukele model embraced across Latin America
Candidates across Latin America have embraced mega-prisons, seeking to replicate the policies of Nayib Bukele, the president of El Salvador, who has won widespread popularity through a campaign of ...
News Costa Rica » Alajuela » Government: Costa Rica opens mega-prison modeled on El Salvador's CECOT
Costa Rica has opened a maximum-security prison modeled on El Salvador's mega-facility, as the Central American nation moves to crack down on surging drug ...
News Costa Rica » Alajuela » Government: Costa Rica's CACCO Mega-Prison Opens Wednesday — Panama Is Already Watching the Model
Costa Rica inaugurates the 5,100-bed CACCO mega-prison Oct. 14. Panama visited the facility; 640 homicides logged in 2026 so far. Anti-torture body demands a halt.
News Costa Rica » Alajuela » Government: Costa Rica Names 9 Narcoterrorist Groups
Costa Rica's president named nine narcoterrorist groups on 14 October, six Mexican cartels already on the US terror list. No decree has been published.
News Costa Rica » Alajuela » Government: Costa Rica Opens Gang Prison for 5,100
Costa Rica has opened a US$37 million gang prison for 5,100 high-risk inmates, built on plans from El Salvador, with first transfers due in late October.
News Costa Rica » Alajuela » Government: Costa Rica opens a Bukele-style mega-prison
By IntelliNews Latam desk Costa Rica, the country that abolished its army in 1948 and long sold itself as Central America’s peaceful outlier, is about to open a prison built to El Salvador’s design.