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Mexico is a continuing mess.
After a number of recent high-profile captures, comes a new wave of bad news.
It's leaky and ineffectual prison system only adds to the defective catch and release environment for arrested narco terrorists.
At least 151 inmates, about 10 per cent of a prison's population, escaped in the border city of Nuevo Laredo, Tamaulipas- by simply walking out a prison service entrance.
Some 58 had been charged with federal crimes that includes drug trafficking and weapons offenses.
Ken Ellingwood observes : "The breakout was another reminder of the troubled state of the nation's overcrowded and porous prisons, where graft is rampant and criminal gangs are essentially in command. Many times, escapes are aided by corrupt guards or prison officials."
Even worse, NO captures have been reported.
Meanwhile, in Cd. Chihuahua, Marisela Escobedo Ortiz (pictured) was in front of government offices, protesting the release of a man who confessed to killing her 16-year-old daughter but was freed by judges...when she was gunned down. Her murder was captured by closed circuit camera.
"What's the government waiting for — that he come and finish me?" Escobedo said in an interview outside the governor's palace that was posted on a website. "Then let him kill me, but here in front to see if it makes them ashamed."
TO SEE VIDEO ( :45 ) AND DETAILS:
http://www.latimes.com/news/nationworld/world/la-fg-mexico-mom-20101218,0,5162480.story?track=rss&utm_source=feedburner&utm_medium=feed&utm_campaign=Feed%3A+latimes%2Flatinamerica+%28L.A.+Times+-+Latin+America%29
Adding to the caos, the Mexican Congress has utterly failed to advance President Calderon's plans to clean-up local police forces and cut down and track narco terrorist money laundering.
FOR DETAILS, SEE:
http://www.nytimes.com/2010/12/18/world/americas/18mexico.html?ref=todayspaper
