Members of two rival cartels, the Zetas and Gulf cartels, battled with stones and improvised weapons earlier today at a prison in the northern Mexican city of Monterrey. An investigation is already begun seeking to substantiate alleged collusion of the guards in unlocking doors for the prisoners.
Overcrowded is a word commonly used to describe Mexican prisons, as is violent. This prison was designed to hold 1,500 inmates, but houses over 3,000. Drug cartels competing over routes and business in America have been known to fight it out in prisons, but this latest episode is the largest in recent memory.
American drug and gun policy and a steady demand for drugs in America are at the root of the violence in Mexico, and likely conditions will continue to deteriorate in Mexico until those policies are addressed.
Bob Hartzer
http://www.bbc.co.uk/news/world-latin-america-17091170
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