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Tuesday, March 30, 2021

Cieneguillas, Zacatecas: Almost 400 Detainees Are Transferred From The Cieneguillas Prison

 "Sol Prendido" for Borderland Beat

This is how the authorities entered the jail to take the detainees to prisons in other states

Armed with riot control equipment, in addition to fire extinguishers, rubber bullets, tear gas pumps, and the support of fire tankers, two thousand members of the National Guard, Mexican Army, State Preventive Police, Road Police and Ministerial Police, took control of the Regional Center for Social Rehabilitation of Cieneguillas, on Monday night, at the northwest exit of the city of Zacatecas.

The objective of the operation, which began on Monday night —and lasted for more than twelve hours— was to execute an instruction from the federal government, to remove 400 prisoners from the siege —presumably belonging to different organized crime groups—, and transfer them to five federal prisons located in Chiapas, Michoacán, Durango, Coahuila and Oaxaca.

The operation began around 8:00 p.m. on Monday, with the deployment of heavily armed Mexican army personnel around the Cieneguillas prison, and the occupation of checkpoints and barracks around the prison. Then members of the National Guard arrived, in dozens of trucks and light vehicles, to reinforce the siege.

Also, in a hundred patrols, state police arrived at the site at around 9:30 p.m., when the "panic button" of the prison was activated, and the alert was automatically disseminated on all the "Matra" radio stations of the local corporations, as the prisoners rioted, and threatened to escape.

Euphemistically identified by the authorities as "persons deprived of liberty," the prisoners seriously hindered the military and police from the transfer action, by rioting and confronting the uniformed personnel with sticks and stones, and causing fires with mats and blankets, until Tuesday morning, when they were controlled, with a toll of four seriously injured prisoners, who were taken in ambulances to a hospital to be treated.

The operation was led by the former director general of Operational Intelligence of the National Guard, Arturo López Bazán, current head of the Secretariat of Public Security of Zacatecas, who has seven months in that position.

Thus, after being coercively subjected in the courtyards, different cells and cannons, a total of 398 inmates were transferred in a staggered manner, in 12 buses, to the international airport of Zacatecas, protected by hundreds of military and police. From there, in a Mexican Air Force aircraft, they were transferred to different federal prisons.

Governor Tello asked for help

In January 2020, Governor Alejandro Tello Cristerna made a vehement call to the federal government to "take the prisoners," imprisoned for crimes of the federal jurisdiction, detained in Cieneguillas, where until yesterday, Monday, there was a prison population of 1,150 inmates.

The Zacatecan president affirmed that this prison had become a "time bomb," due to the constant fights, riots and escapes of prisoners, which have been registered on the site on a regular basis, for more than a decade, since that infamous escape of 53 members of the Zetas, through the main door of the prison, on Saturday, May 16, 2009.

Among other serious events, on the afternoon of December 31, 2019, a fight occurred in Cieneguillas between prisoners who allegedly belonged to antagonistic organized crime groups, several of whom inexplicably used firearms, ended with a toll of 18 dead and 20 seriously injured. Six months later, on May 6, 2020, in broad daylight and through a tunnel, 12 highly dangerous prisoners escaped from the place.

The governor - who in six months concludes his constitutional term as president - even publicly referred to the "possibility" that the federal government will finance the construction of a new prison in the capital of Zacatecas, because of the obsoleteness of the current one. The option of "reconfiguring", the problematic criminal, was also handled to convert it from a medium-security prison, to high security.

In this regard, on Tuesday, lawyer Ricardo Ramírez - who served as head of the management of Cieneguillas, between 2008 and 2010 - said in an interview with this newspaper, that this option is not viable: "you should not put good money, into something bad. Cieneguillas was already surpassed for many years, in many aspects."

"Its infrastructure is obsolete, it no longer has the necessary levels of security. I would propose leaving that prison only for accused prisoners, such as pretrial detention. And apart, build a new prison complex, with international standards, of high security."

Last Saturday, February 27, in view of working for Zacatecas, President Andrés Manuel López Obrador recalled the abandonment in which the past federal government left the country's prisons, as well as the general corruption in prisons, and announced that he would respond to the request of the governor of Zacatecas.

"We are going to help, so that they stop being saturated and crowded in prisons. We are going to transfer prisoners from Zacatecas to federal prisons ... and there are no risks of confrontation, of riots," López Obrador said.

Source: La Jornada

22 comments:

  1. Sinaloas where ready to PURGE on The Enemies Good Job on transferring Those Ruthless Killers of sinaloa don't ever let them free they a menace to society 👍

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    1. Most were cdg/cjng criminals though lol

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    2. You again you sure can't keep Sinaloa out you mouth boy

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    3. Sinaloa cartel de las traiciones

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    4. 7:19 mencho tambien es un traicionero torcido, todos son iguales

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    5. 7:19 cjng is made up of nothing but chapulines rats n cowards starting from the top

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    6. 7:19 more like Cartel of the Disposables, but that applies to the other cartels too...

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  2. Whats funny is the majority were sent to Durango prison, i wonder if those were cds sicarios that were in cienguillas. Because the other half were sent to Michoacan, oaxaca prisons.
    If they were cdg/cjng being sent to durango its going to be a rough time for them

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  3. Ndrangheta overrated!
    https://thediplomat.com/2021/03/how-asian-drug-trafficking-networks-operate-in-europe/

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  4. Le jalaron la cola al Tigre apa. Se les va aparecer el diablo a estos ojetes. Por delante a todos los chapulines, torcidos/michapuerkos. Un saludo a los coronel, M11 y el 07 Dimas. Ajuuaaaa

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  5. How many sent to USA ?
    i wondered why They releaseing so many usa citizens in prison it was to make room for these guys ??
    LMAO

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    1. 1:47 the idea was to stage a Coup d'Etát using pardoned prisoners to take the US Capitol, but it was harder than stopping the florida count to give W rhe presidency stolen from Al Gore, same guy in the middle, roger stone who got paid millions of dollars in both cases...

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  6. I know this is off topic but there was some significant news from GTO that you guys missed yesterday..

    https://www.debate.com.mx/policiacas/Asesinan-a-candidato-y-delegado-del-PRD-en-Guanajuato-20210330-0143.html

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  7. why is it comical that to me that they did this operation at night? smells of treachery and deceit

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    1. Well technically they were sent out the next day early am, but the prisoners found out the day before and at night started a small riot but was quickly stopped by police.

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    2. 7:42 I hope you did not expect RSVPs included with invitations to Los Pinos, or shit...
      Really

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  8. https://www.m-x.com.mx/secretos/rosa-icela-cambia-la-mirilla-ahora-van-por-el-sapo-del-cartel-jalisco , me.parecio interesante este articulo para este sitio , no se si cause algun incomodo al pegarlo aqui , de antemano disculpas , sr MX y demas staff

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    1. Talves el viejito cabeza de algodon parese que le valga mare el crimen en mexico pero por los visto a echo algunas cosas para combatir el cjng como ir por ese lacra sapo en puerto vallarta. Mis respetos para el presidente no va poder arreglar todo pronto pero si se ven los pasos que esta dando

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  9. What is comical is "intelligence" expert Arturo lopez bazan really believes his background is something to brag about...from the ne'er do well good for nothing "trained in France Gendarmeria" to State of Zacatecas public security main dog, he has been following on the footsteps of giants like omar hamid garcia harfuch, genarco garcia luna, luis cardenas palomino, miguel angel osorio chón, the creators of the "Mentira Histórica", the butchers of Tanhuato, tlatlaya, acteal, even Tlatelolco and now heading the new Toma de Zacatecas for the Monriales without Horses, (unlike Pancho Villa), but with a lotta horseshit and farts from the Plataforma Slim OVNI...
    --THANKS FOR NOTHING siñor bazan.

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  10. Federal state cleaning house ! A lot of extortions were coming out of this jailhouse . They would call ask for the money if you don’t pay you get whacked . They would also do secuestro express that they call it . Express kidnapping in English . You receive a phone call they ask for money and usually they will take what ever you can gather as fast as possible . Then your free to continue your daily routine . Hopefully this ends and brings some peace to the hard working people in Zacatecas. Fuck it let them kill each other let them fight for there drugs there routes but just don’t fuck with the people . Att “El Zacatecas”
    Aquí andamos cercas de Fresnillo pasando las Lomas nos cuida un Santo Niño

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  11. When is lopez Obrador going to start sending people wanted in the USA??

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    1. 12:43 soon as the US starts sending to México people wanted by México, how about Felix Rodriguez Mendigutia and Lt Col. Oliver North? he may have retired from the US Marines, but never got presidential pardonned for his cocaine drug deals

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