El Salvador's gang-busting President Nayib Bukele on Wednesday laid the foundation stone for a prison in Costa Rica modeled on his own CECOT mega-jail that rights groups say is the setting for serious human rights abuses.
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- Costa Rica starts building a high-security mega-prison to fight crime
- Presidents Chavez and Bukele attend the prison's inauguration 17s
- The prison is modeled after El Salvador's SICOT facility 49s
- The new prison will house 5,000 inmates to ease overcrowding 1m 2s
- Opposition claims the project is aimed at gaining votes before the election 1m 19s