Mexico Prison Riot A Cover For Zetas Escape -- Christian Science Monitor
Mexican prison guards may have helped 30 Zeta drug cartel members escape during a prison riot. Some 44 inmates were killed at the Apodaca prison in northern Mexico early Sunday.
The revelation that guards likely helped members of the violent Zetas drug cartel slaughter 44 rival inmates and break out of a northern Mexico jail throws new attention on the enormous corruption inside the country's overcrowded, underfunded prisons.
The top officials and as many as 18 guards at the Apodaca prison may have helped 30 Zetas escape during the confusion of a riot early Sunday in which other Zetas fatally bludgeoned and knifed 44 members of the rival Gulf cartel, Nuevo Leon Gov. Rodrigo Medina said Monday.
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More News On The Mexican Prison Riot That Resulted In Zeta Cartel Members Escaping
Mexico prison escape and killing likely aided by prison officials, governor says. -- Houston Chronicle
9 Mexico prison guards helped gangsters escape -- CBC/AP
Mexico sacks Apodaca jail boss over Monterrey riot -- BBC
Official: Guards aided Zetas prison break -- CBS/AP
Mexico: Guards Accused in Prison Riot -- New York Times/AP
Mexican prisoners kill rivals, then escape -- Newsday/AP
Mexico prison riot was cover for cartel jailbreak: police -- New York Daily News
33 Zetas drug gang members at large -- Iol News
Mexico Prison Guards, Zetas Drug Cartel Allegedly Conspired In Brutal Prison Escape -- Huffington Post
Inmate Massacre Highlights Mexico Jail Corruption -- New York Times/AP
Zetas break out of prison in Mexico. Who are they? -- Christian Science Monitor
My Comment: In the interim .... the violence continues in Mexico's prisons.
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