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One of Mexico’s most notorious prisons begins a new chapter this weekend as a Pacific Ocean getaway after a makeover aimed at bringing in tourists to the former penal colony.

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On Friday evening, President Andres Manuel Lopez Obrador opened the Islas Marias Tourist Centre, bidding to turn the decades-old federal prison in the Islas Marias archipelago into an environmental attraction and place for history lovers. “This is tourism for excursions, to explore, to live with nature.” … “To recreate history, it’s something exceptional, extraordinary.”says Lopez Obrador.

Alongside villas to lodge guests, a restaurant, a cafe and beaches, the revamped site includes an arch named after Nelson Mandela, who spent some 18 years behind bars on South Africa’s Robben Island before being elected president of the country. In a promotional video by Mexico’s government said Mandela is, “an example that even behind prison walls, ideal sand change can live on for those who want to change history.”

 

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