The governor of Santa Fe province, Maximiliano Pullaro, shared details on Tuesday of a recent police search operation in the Pinero prison complex, where several high-profile drug traffickers are housed.
She has previously applauded Bukele's approach to drug-related crime and said she was "interested in adapting the Bukele model" to Argentina.
"They are going to have it worse and worse," Pullaro wrote on his Instagram social media account, alongside a picture of the prisoners with naked torsos and their heads bowed surrounded by guards in military gear.
"Orders come out from the prisons that make life impossible for the people of Santa Fe," the governor added.
Santa Fe is home to the strategic grains port city of Rosario, which last year recorded one of the highest homicide rates in Argentina as criminal gangs fight over drug territory.
Persons:
Lucinda Elliott, El, Nayib, Maximiliano Pullaro, Pinero, Patricia Bullrich, Bukele's, Pullaro, torsos, El Salvador's Bukele, Bukele, Javier Milei's, Alistair Bell
Organizations:
Reuters, El Salvador, Argentina's, Legal, Social Studies, Conservative Political, Conference
Locations:
Argentina, Santa Fe, Maximiliano, Rosario, Buenos Aires, Washington