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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 » Places: 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 » Places: 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 » Places: 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 » Places: Volcan Poas and the crater rim above Alajuela
Volcan Poas rises above Alajuela in a landscape of craters, acid water and cloud-forest edges that shifts with every step. Editorialbild im Reisemagazin-Stil vom Wahrzeichen Poas-Vulkan in Alajuela ...