The President of Costa Rica, Laura Fernández Delgado, visited the Center for the Confinement of Terrorism (CECOT) in El Salvador this Friday to learn about the controls, internal procedures, and security model applied at the maximum-security prison. Infobae was present during part of the official tour, which included a meeting with Salvadoran authorities and a walkthrough of internal sectors of the complex. The President of Costa Rica, Laura Fernández Delgado, toured the Center for the Confinement of Terrorism (CECOT) alongside Salvadoran authorities to learn about its security protocols and internal operations. (Infobae Centroamérica/Emerson Del Cid)Laura Fernández took part in a meeting prior to the tour with El Salvador's Minister of Justice and Security, Gustavo Villatoro; the Minister of Defense, René Francis Merino Monroy, and authorities from both countries. (Infobae Centroamérica/Emerson Del Cid)Fernández's visit to CECOT took place two days after the inauguration in Costa Rica of the Center for High Containment Against Organized Crime, a prison that took the Salvadoran infrastructure as its reference. (Infobae Centroamérica/Emerson Del Cid)Laura Fernández was accompanied by Costa Rica's Minister of Justice and Peace, Gabriel Aguilar Vargas, during the activities carried out at the penitentiary complex. (Infobae Centroamérica/Emerson Del Cid)The Center for the Confinement of Terrorism, located in Tecoluca, in the department of San Vicente, is one of the main symbols of the security policy of Nayib Bukele's government. (Infobae Centroamérica/Emerson Del Cid)A group of officials tours the facilities of a prison guarded by armed personnel, with inmates held in the side cells. (Infobae Centroamérica/Emerson Del Cid)During the meeting, Salvadoran officials explained to the Costa Rican delegation the criteria for incarceration, the classification of inmates, and the surveillance protocols of CECOT. (REUTERS/Jose Cabezas)Access controls and the presence of security personnel are part of the operational scheme that authorities presented to the Costa Rican president. (Infobae Centroamérica/Emerson Del Cid)The President of Costa Rica's visit seeks to identify procedures of the Salvadoran system that could be adapted to her country's new high-containment prison. (Infobae Centroamérica/Emerson Del Cid)The President of Costa Rica's visit to CECOT this Friday seeks to identify procedures of the Salvadoran system that could be adapted to her country's new high-containment prison. (Courtesy: Presidency of the Republic of El Salvador)Security agents guard one of the entrances to CECOT, the maximum-security prison that the Salvadoran government opened to hold people accused of belonging to criminal groups. (Infobae Centroamérica/Emerson del Cid)