El Salvador’s President Nayib Bukele joined Costa Rican President Rodrigo Chaves on Wednesday to lay the first stone for a new maximum-security prison in Alajuela, modeled after El Salvador’s controversial Terrorism Confinement Center (CECOT). The event has intensified debates in Costa Rica’s presidential campaign, with opposition leaders claiming it boosts the ruling party’s hard-line stance […] The post Costa Rica Turns to Bukele’s Prison Model Amid Rising Crime Wave appeared first on The Tico Times | Costa Rica News | Travel | Real Estate .