05 April 2010

Not even earthquake-related

The BBC has an article about a prison escape in Northern Mexico, but on the other side of the country from the earthquake:
Thirteen inmates escaped when armed men arrived in ten vehicles and stormed a prison in the border city of Reynosa, Mexican officials said. Three prisoners died during the raid but it was unclear who shot them.
Authorities have put 31 prison staff under investigation in connection with the escape. It was the second big jailbreak in a week in Tamaulipas state, which has seen an increase in violence blamed on a split between rival drug gangs.
The jailbreak in Reynosa, which lies just across the border from McAllen, Texas, happened on Friday night. The authorities reported the raid and the deaths of the three prisoners but did not give details of the escape until Sunday.
On 26 March, forty prisoners escaped from a jail in Matamoros, also in Tamaulipas. Escapes are common from Mexican state prisons, with guards either being paid to assist or intimidated into not resisting. Violence has been on the increase in Tamaulipas and in the neighbouring state of Nuevo Leon. Officials say the powerful drug-trafficking gang known as the Gulf Cartel has split with its former allies, Los Zetas, and the two are now battling for control of drug routes into the US.
Rico says any time we can get the weasels fighting amongst themselves, all the better...

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