Gunmen talk their way into Mexico prison and unleash bloody attack (w/interesting local take)

[cbayer]

Source: LA Times

By Richard Fausset
January 3, 2014, 3:30 p.m.

MEXICO CITY — A group of armed men posing as public servants talked their way into a prison in the southern Mexican state of Guerrero early Friday and unleashed a bloody attack on inmates and guards, according to the state prosecutor’s office. At least nine people were killed in the assault and the ensuing shootout with prison guards.

The attack occurred in the city of Iguala, about halfway between Mexico City and the Pacific Coast resorts of Acapulco. It came less than two months after Mexico’s national human rights commission issued a report that detailed the wretched state of the country’s penal system, noting that 65 of the nation’s 101 most crowded prisons are effectively under inmate control.

In a statement Friday, state prosecutors said they were not ruling out the involvement of prison officials in the raid, either “by omission or participation.”

Mexican prison authorities have a well-established history of colluding with criminals. Members of the country’s powerful drug cartels, meanwhile, have a long tradition of masquerading as law enforcement officials while doing some of their bloodiest business.

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Today at about noon, we completely lost all internet and phone contact (we are in Baja California Sud).

Locals told us that something had probably occurred and that the government had probably shut down all communication.

Everything just came back on about 20 minutes ago (more than 8 hours later).

Interesting response.

[certainot]

1. legalize it. otherwise bend over for the fascists

[Comrade Grumpy]

2. The cartels make billions, and pay millions in bribes. It works.

Mexican journalist Anibel Hernandez has a book recently out in English, "Narcoland," that tells the story of Chapo Guzman and his 2001 prison escape. The capos owned those prisons and their staffs, from the warden on down (and up).

Then there was the prison where the warden let prisoners out at night to act as hit squads for the cartels, with them returning to the prison each morning. That might have been in Durango. Not sure.

[pretzel4gore]

3. the drug laws are criminal....

what a great idea the drug war was ! Imagine! YOU outlaw a product which YOU can access easily,your vast plantation producing the opiates and your network of suppliers moving the dope to your drug stores on every corner, meanwhhile meanwhile 750 thousand american are killed violently since 1945 in the 'war on drugs' and the gangland strife such wars always entail...it's win win for YOU (as the otherwise restless bored ex military youth can be put to work as cops, prison guards lawyers and so called law enforcement professionals) and btw an entire class of losers can be written outta the political process.