Costa Rica News » Alajuela News Costa Rica » Alajuela » Politics: Costa Rica opens a Bukele-style mega-prison. Here’s how it got here
On Wednesday, President Laura Fernández inaugurated a mega-prison that emulates the Terrorism Confinement Center (CECOT) that has become a symbol of Salvadoran President Nayib Bukele’s security ...
News Costa Rica » Alajuela » Politics: Costa Rica Opens a Mega-Prison for the Criminals Still Running Gangs From Their Cells
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 » Politics: 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 » Politics: 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 » Politics: 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 » Politics: 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 ...
News Costa Rica » Alajuela » Politics: Costa Rica Opens Prison Modeled on El Salvador’s CECOT
President Laura Fernández is scheduled to inaugurate Costa Rica’s new maximum-security prison at 12:30 p.m. Wednesday, but the facility will not receive inmates today. Justice and Peace Minister ...
News Costa Rica » Alajuela » Politics: 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.