Tuesday, February 10, 2026

A pencil factory now holds deportees

From The Guardian : In 2013 Faber-Castell shut down its pencil factory in Costa Rica. In 2018 the company gave the factory to Costa Rica to use as a shelter for people fleeing Nicaragua. And now the building is used to hold people who have been deported from the United States.

The Guardian alerted Faber-Castell to the building’s new use. It’s not clear what the company will (or can?) do: “Faber-Castell did not answer questions about whether it intended to take any further action.”

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