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

ABC News International · October 15, 2026 at 2:57 AM

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

Costa Rica has made fighting drug trafficking a main goal, inspired by El Salvador's hardline approach

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