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Monday, October 5, 2015

What Mexican federal agents were doing when they should've been monitoring El Chapo's prison cell

Borderland Beat posted by DD republished from Business Insider

DD;  While Pena Nieto on his jet en route to France for a state visit just continued  playing dominoes (he was winning - you can't blame him)  when he was informed of Chapo's escape.   The guards were playing solitaire were playing solitaire on their computer monitors that were supposed to be focused  on Chapo' cell.  (you have to pass the time somehow).


Photo from security footage of the Image Monitoring Center four minutes before Joaquin "El Chapo" Guzmán escaped
 While the world's most notorious drug lord calmly stood up and slipped out of one of Mexico's maximum-security prisons, the two federal agents responsible for monitoring surveillance footage from his cell played solitaire.

Mexican Center for Investigation and National Security (CISEN) agents Juan Carlos Sánchez Garcia and José Daniel Aureoles Tabares were assigned to supervise the every move of Sinaloa cartel boss Joaquin "El Chapo" Guzmán while he was detained in Altiplano prison.


During a preliminary investigation, both agents gave statements saying that on July 11 at 8:48 p.m., four minutes before Guzmán escaped through a perfectly placed hole in the blind spot of a lone security camera in his L-shaped cell, their computer screens were frozen and they both decided to restart their computers, El Universal reports

The duo also stated they made nearly 30 phone calls to alert officials of Guzmán's disapperance, to which, no one answered.
 
 The judge presiding over the case felt the synchronous flight of Guzmán and the shutdown of federal monitoring systems was unconvincing and therefore called in a technical expert to give testimony.

According to El Universal, the technical expert concluded that it was impossible for security footage to freeze onscreen as agents Juan Carlos Sánchez Garcia and José Daniel Aureoles Tabares claimed. The same expert found that the agents only made three phone calls to prison staff.

A still from the security camera footage from the office where the federal agents were watching Guzmán purports to show that multiple computer screens were turned off and the agents were playing Solitare, El Universal reports

It took prison officials a full 18 minutes to reach Guzmán's cell after finally noticing his escape and it took nearly 3 hours to initiate "code red" which issues an alert to further lock down the prison, contact the Mexican military, and close the nearby airport in Toluca.
 
Earlier this month, four public officials were charged for their suspected roles in the brazen escape of Guzmán, bringing the total number of officials involved to 20, InSight Crime reports.

Amid these charges, Mexico's interior ministry has been accused of hiding a video with sounds of power tools and digging, proving that Altiplano prison staff knew of Guzmán's planned escape, EFE Agencia reports.

Currently, the only footage released by the Mexican government is a silent clip of Guzmán pacing around his prison cell before disappearing into his custom-built tunnel. However, El Proceso, a weekly Mexican news magazine, reported that an internal document from the Prosecutor General of the Republic (PGR) revealed the existence of security-camera footage with audio.

 According to Proceso, "the blows of metal against concrete are heard in Guzmán's cell minutes before he disappeared from view of the security camera."
 
While the response to Guzmán's escape was mishandled on a number of levels within the prison, Mexico's president Enrique Peña Nieto, en route to a state visit in France, continued to play dominos after learning of the drug kingpins' jailbreak.
When Peña Nieto's staff asked what they should do for the remainder of the flight he responded, "We are going to finish," pointing to the dominoes. He then won with fours.



DD; It seems like a big coincidence that some the 13 prisoners who were hurriedly extradited to the US past week were on the same cell block as Chapo and would have heard the construction noises that EFE Agencia reported were picked up on the cameras that had audio.

EFE :
" the recording implicates other staff at Altiplano I, as well as personnel with the national prison system, the Center for Research and National Security, or Cisen, and the National Security Commission, adding that "clearly their complicity was what enabled the escape."

"The video is particularly important because it will reveal the extent to which organized crime has penetrated all levels of the prison system and "even all organs of Mexican national security."

52 comments:

  1. Great job, Mexico!

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    1. Just another beautiful day in Mexico. In other news, Russia is leading air strikes in Syria against Russia.

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    2. when they catch him again shoot him point blank in the head . That will take care of him once and for all

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  2. Like every other video of mexicos corruption nothing will change that country it is so fukkin rotten and the citizens just gave up

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    1. Gave up? More like they didn't stand a chance against bullets, poverty and the vagaries of the corruption the good ol' USA set up in Mexico. Control the drugs, control the politics. Blaming the Mexican people for being victims is infuriating and stupid.

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    2. 7:10 nice to have another guy fighting obscurantism, there are too many beasts denying the most monumental facts face to face, in the most cynical ways...

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    3. 7:10 Mexicans letting a Mexican drug lord escape a Mexican super max in Mexico and you still wanna blame the US lol

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  3. The government owns the drug traffic in Mexico . Chapo had his organization tuned to where they have to have him . If it weren't so he would dead and replaced . Mexico as a republic is run by criminals. More so than most countries .

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    1. Ever hear about those that live in glass houses? Also, if you really think Mexico is more corrupt "than most countries" you need to study some geography, then do some reading and traveling.

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    2. Nothing u learn in Geography can map out "who is the most corrupt country?" I think reading may give u an idea but possibly a one sided opinion where the US is the good guy in all of it......or u can just keep reading here where things seem fair.........traveling? Maybe.....depends on what type of person u r I guess? Idk but I'm sure to say that Mexico may very well be the most corrupted govt for sure but as a country meaning the average everyday people, not the worst.

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    3. Mexican Government is all corrupt and a puppet of the US corrupt agent puppet masters and pinocchios...
      --Most american citizens I know do not go for any of this kind of bullshit, maybe because I do not usually meet people I do not like, it helped will rogers...

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    4. 8:10 The many crimes of the US government representatives are very well documented, as of yesterady, plenty reports all over the world, censored on the US to keep little teenager girls innocent and denying anything that detracts from the magic fairies full of fairie dust versions of history they like...

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  4. They should just let Mr guzman and his people operate in peace. Mexico would be a safer place.they should just stop looking for him. They will not find him again . Arriba el chapo y Toda su gente, atte. El morroñis de la palma navolato, sinaloa ajuuaa.

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  5. What a facking joke... La Pena Nieto got played by some CISEN gorillas in charge of the national security. cisen needs to be cleaned up all the way to the top monkey in charge of all their operations... Aren't they like the NSA or CIA of mx???? Nieto's and la Gaviota puta security at risk?? enough with the dominos wey.... Pongase a trabajar hijueputa. lloll

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  6. Jijijiji
    El Flaco y El Gordo seguridad.
    Solitaire my ass they were daydreaming about their upcoming pachangas. Lo invito un no doscientos con musica en vive y cerveza y camarones. ¡Ijole!

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  7. Inside job, stinks of an inside job to help Chapo escape. Chapo must have paid millions till the top for his escape.

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  8. Epn should get the same punishment like the guards and staff all put in prison.

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    1. Cowards and rats are the first to abandon ship...batista and idi amin did it...peña nieto will do it...

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  9. In 3 hours he was already in Sinaloa courtesy of Pena's personal helicopter !

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    1. Les then 3 actually

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    2. Maybe more than 3 as he may have stopped to get some PAN from one of his mistress?

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    3. You mean like BIMBO PAN?

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  10. Mex gov is pathetic!

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    1. Thing is the U.s government is the same but they still care what people think not in Mexico ... But people still belive Obama got Osama that with the 911 atack is worst then all this chapo escape thats some NWO and the American people think there straight hahahaha

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    2. Why bring the USA into this?! Stop pointing fingers and admit it Mexico is shit. I am Mexican my self but damn lets be real Mexico does not know how to hide there crooked ways. That's the difference so stop saying well the usa does this and that! Who gives a shit!? At least the USA has a decent structure of life, decent roads, hospitals. Half of Mexico till this day has no electricity that's what we should worry about! Not about what the USA does!

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    3. What does Obama getting Osama have to do with Mexico? Nothing. It's just spin to deviate from the topic at hand. Mexico is corrupt as hell. This coming from someone who lives there. Everyone wants to point fingers elsewhere, but the problem starts at home. For way too long has there been corruption - criminals and politicians working hand-in-hand. It will continue, many more millions are to be made.

      Chapo escaping from the so called super max Mexican fortress, just shows what kind of clown show the Mexican government is running inside their own prisons.

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    4. Thing is your right the Mexican goverment is corupt but ask yourself why and the answer is America always trying to stay on top while they screw everthing else guess wat fuk that they don't have Chapo and are on the brink of starting another war Mexico just does eat it does but the Americans have the whole world on their ass pinches gringos better watch out cause if they don't help Mexico financially then the enemy will and that means trouble there's Isis camps already in chichuahua ready to act and thats a fact better keep Mexico happy man America needs to wake up and stop fighting stupid wars cause the war is closer then they think there's more problems then Chapo for fake ass Donald Trump

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    5. 1:30 Hacerse Pendejo Specialist...all the mexican problems trickle down from the US, including the low minimum wages, the US has there their mexican governing narco-mierdocracia they chose, promoted installed and helped cheat to get elected, full of vendepatrias and traitors, only you can't see it because of selective amnesia and voluntary blindness...
      --Luckily we are not required to follow your hollow thinking, fack u baby, go to hell.

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    6. It actually starts her in the U.S. with all this junkys...

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  11. Yep, inside job. Corrupción.

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  12. Guards are easily bought. They don't pay them enough and they threaten their families if they don't take the money. U should know this by now.

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    1. Dont forget some already have criminal records and no one gives a shiiit and the same people in charge of chapo at last prison he escaped were in charge of him at this prison. Kind of helps to escape again

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    2. True, but then again, they shouldn't be working there and taking paychecks if they can't take the consequences that come with working in a prison.

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    3. Mexican gov has to stop expecting their employees wages to be subsidized by bribes and step up to the plate and come into the 1st world.My 2 cents worth.You are not a poor country.You have many resources and manufacturing.You have the means.It dosent have to be this way but you chose it to be this way.{Yes I know Im talking to the Mexican government}....from 1 gov employee[Canada] to another[Mexico].

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    4. Prison guards take tips, and MUST share with the warden and then all the hyerarchy, so the more tips are there, the less then want to tip the apple cart...
      Tips are not kickback or bribes...

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    5. Call it what you want even though at times it can be a fine line but the wages are expected to be subsidized somewhere else.Do gov employees get a cost of living increase based on inflation?I doubt it.They seem to be expected to steal or pay for their jobs like the cops in DF.

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  13. No matter what, this case seems like a simple "Plata o Plomo" deal! Do you think the cartel that does not kill innocents (CDS), would have kept its reputation if even one jail guard decided to go to the Americans to snitch about Chapos jail break? Fuck No! CDS and Chapo would have had the jailers wife, brothers, uncles and even adolescent kids killed just for blowing his escape! I'm sure lots of nuthuggers will not dare to admit that but its the damn truth! Every cartel kills innocents when the BOSS tells them too!

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  14. All the complicity between the narcs and the government never mattered to me, then it all went to hell...
    --the extreme that the mexican governing narco-mierdocracia can't do anything without the most egregious criminal measures like murdering at will, fabricating guilty parties, STEALING EVERITHING FROM EVERYBODY, tortures and disappearances, even hiding the hand of the military and police behind the state sponsored terrorism by giving the worst jobs to private paramilitary contractors, to avoid trials for crimes against humanity...
    --all under the watchful eyes of the UN and the US, nafta, ttp, UK, EU, DDHH and all the other letter soups in the world, that have sold out or been bought by the mighty high and powerful, like the US and co...
    The casualties and collateral damages of the globalization of the already round world are being contributed by the poorest, and the success of the enterprise will be their contribution, they will reap nothing but more bullshit, like the mexican governing narco-mierdocracia is feeding us once more to make us forget narvarte, tlatlaya, ayotzinapa, pemex, san fernando, tijuana, sinaloa, cd juareeez, coahuila, atenco, Aguas blancas, el charco, los zetas, los Capulina twins, peña nieto, pemex...etc etc, etc, etc by blaming a few narcos or prison guards for mexico's ills...

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  15. Everyone knows but Mexico won't admit that Chapo walked out with a limo at the gate waiting for him.

    Mexico will be a NARCO state for a very long time! Unless UFO lands on earth!

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    1. @11:47 El Gran Señor Don El Chapo escaped, from his own houses! Through the sewers, why would he not escape the same way from prison to assuage the touchy feelings of the mexican governing narco-mierdocracia?
      --Just to keep you make you happy???
      --if only El Chapo knew who the hell are you, he may live to please "you"

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  16. All you people are wrong...this does not prove a thing. Nine out of ten government employees from any given country are playing solitaire during work hours. The tenth person is watching porn.

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    1. haha u forgot to mention the tenth person is also the boss

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  17. That escape cost Chapo $50 million in bribes and he thinks it was worth it for sure!

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  18. Mexico needs more finesse and do it the American way! Gangs and gangster built the US. Each generation of US immigrants formed gangs and contributed to the great US nation! US is not what it is today without the gangs and gangsters of the past! Finesse mi amigos!

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    1. American immigrant gangs were building a Nation for themselves, mexican governing narco-mierdocracia are robbing from a nation and helping others rob the nation even worse, that is what satraps do, rob all they can while they can...

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    2. Wtf are u talking about ? Gansters in the US. are weak they get used by the real mafias shut up there should be nothing at all u idiot

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  19. With withdrawal from vietnam, the US rogue agents had to find another source of income, air force general Richard Secord was there with his Air America to move the goods from bolivia peru Ecuador colombia to the US, namely cocaine and mariguana.
    --Mexico just was on the way, and promptly brought into it...
    --Now the wise ass lobby wants mexico to take all the blame voluntarily...

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  20. Whatever happened to the sacrificial lambs they said killed that border patrol agent when it turned out it was "freindly fire". This reminds me of that.

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  21. I suggest we consult Mr. DONALD TROMPETAS about doing a reality show pero de puros narcos y paisas y putas y parties y culos (medallas) y droga y pisto y de todo y luego que valla y chingue a su madre

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  22. While the response to Guzmán's escape was mishandled on a number of levels within the prison

    No, it was handled PERFECTLY. You're still blinded by seeing the gov'mnt as the good guys. Wake up.

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