Over 150 inmates escape from Mexican prison

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At least 159 inmates escaped from a prison in the northeastern Mexican border city of Nuevo Laredo on Friday in one of the country's biggest jail breaks in recent years, prison officials said.

"There were 159 inmates who apparently left through the main entrance," an official with the city's penitentiary system said. It was one of the biggest prison escapes in recent years, surpassing the 85 inmates who broke out of a prison in the northern border city of Reynosa in September.

Between January and September, an estimated 200 prisoners have escaped from prisons in Tamaulipas, where Nuevo Laredo is located, according to the state public security officials.

The area is the scene of a bloody struggle between two rival drug gangs, the Gulf Cartel and Los Zetas, according to officials.

The border area has been the scene of rising lawlessness as drug cartels battle it out among themselves for lucrative smuggling routes into the United States, and with Mexican police and military.

After news of the break, extra police and troops were brought in to reinforce security at the prison.

Officials said this week the number of deaths in Mexico's vicious four-year drug gang war has soared past 30,000, with 12,456 fatalities this year alone.

President Felipe Calderón launched a massive military crackdown on the cartels in December 2006, and since then there has been an escalating cycle of violence.


Source (http://www.telegraph.co.uk/news/worldnews/centralamericaandthecaribbean/mexico/8210711/Over-150-inmates-escape-from-Mexican-prison.html)

[ShyGuyInChicago]

Unfortunately with the way Mexico's criminal justice system is run, I am not surprised at all. It seems to me at least that there is lots of corruption. So therefore, while this does not appear to be corruption I am not surprised at all.

[Sage]

Ay carumba!

[The Joker]

Ay dios mio!

[Sage]

Ay dios mio!

No es bueno, mang!

[Zero Beat]

One up for the prison. *shakes head*

[The Joker]

No es bueno, mang!

He intentado.

[Daniel_]

Can't secure their borders, or their prisons.

[Amnesiac]

Can't secure their borders, or their prisons.

Are you implying that people illegally immigrate into Mexico?

[Daniel_]

Are you implying that people illegally immigrate into Mexico?

Other way around, actually.

[Amnesiac]

Other way around, actually.

Mexico illegally immigrates into people?

[Daniel_]

Mexico illegally immigrates into people?

That is correct.

[Sogeking]

Can't secure their borders, or their prisons.

Neither can the US

[Daniel_]

Neither can the US

Lol?

It's not our job to keep illegal immigrants out, it's the countries who are immigrating heres responsibility. But when they don't do it, it becomes our problem. It's just the U.S, it's everywhere. If you want to go somewhere else, at least have the common courtesy to get a green card and learn the language.

[JunkBondTrader]

Lol?

It's not our job to keep illegal immigrants out, it's the countries who are immigrating heres responsibility. But when they don't do it, it becomes our problem. It's just the U.S, it's everywhere. If you want to go somewhere else, at least have the common courtesy to get a green card and learn the language.

Fair play, but a country's duty it to primarily look after it's own interests, not those of neighbouring coutries. So, Mexicans are emigrating to the US. Unless they're especially skilled workers or something, why should Mexico give a crap? That's fewer people they have to support.

I'm actually completely neutral on this matter and am in no place (to clarify, Europe) to take a stance on Americo-Mexican relations. But as with any other nation state, if Mexico spent their taxpayers money on doing the US Border Force's job for them (which I believe they already do to a certain extent) they'd be betraying the voters by spending the money on American interests instead of theirs.

[OneDeep]

Ahhhh some people talk so much shit.. Luckily for you bastards that do, you're lucky you don't fucking live next to mexico. I'm on the fuckin texas/mexico border and hearing all these people whining about immigrants pisses me off.

Gets even worse when your dad is a zeta. ahh i love mexico.

[Amnesiac]

Ahhhh some people talk so much shit.. Luckily for you bastards that do, you're lucky you don't fucking live next to mexico. I'm on the fuckin texas/mexico border and hearing all these people whining about immigrants pisses me off.

Dude, I'm in Houston too and we're not on the Texas-Mexico border. We're at least 500 miles from it. Houstonians don't have the right to say they're "on the Texas-Mexico border", not when people in Brownsville (which is actually on the border) are fearing the drug cartels coming across the river.

[OneDeep]

Nigga i'm from h town. I live in harlingen. U kno where dat is? 30 min away from brownsville. in fact, im in brownsville as we are speaking.

[Amnesiac]

Nigga i'm from h town. I live in harlingen. U kno where dat is? 30 min away from brownsville. in fact, im in brownsville as we are speaking.

Fine then, but your location says "Houston".

[OneDeep]

Fine then, but your location says "Houston".

My location says Houston/Harlingen

[jockboy14]

lol mexico sucks

[goat]

At least 159 inmates escaped from a prison in the northeastern Mexican border city of Nuevo Laredo on Friday in one of the country's biggest jail breaks in recent years, prison officials said.

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Wow, thats scary; and they just walked out the gate. The cartels practically own the country. Bought it with American money too.

[Sage]

Wow, thats scary; and they just walked out the gate. The cartels practically own the country. Bought it with American money too.

I hope you realize the cartels are only thriving because of the idiotic "war on drugs" policy that Americans enacted.

[jason123]

ouch. Dang mexican guards