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Weekly Report - 22 January 2026 (WR-26-03)
COSTA RICA: Bukele pays another controversial visit to San José
El Salvador’s President Nayib Bukele paid a visit to Costa Rica this week, just ahead of presidential and legislative elections on 1 February. There he met right-of-centre President Rodrigo Chaves, an avowed Bukele admirer, and laid the first stone of a new maximum-security prison Centro de Alta Contención de Crimen Organizado (Cacco) in Alajuela, which is modelled on the notorious 40,000-capacity mega-jail Centro de Confinamiento del Terrorismo (Cecot) in El Salvador which has sparked major human rights concerns. Bukele’s visit was controversial as it coincided with the final stages of campaigning for the presidential race, in which the Chaves continuity candidate Laura Fernández, who has also publicly aligned herself with the Salvadorean president, remains the frontrunner [WR-26-02].
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