Jaime Rodríguez Calderón, El Bronco was admitted this Tuesday afternoon, March 15 to the Apodaca Prison, in the Metropolitan Area of Monterrey, where multiple escapes, riots and murders have been recorded due to the internal mafias that maintain control of the prison.
The Apodaca Prison covers an area of 55,000 square meters and contains 1,603 prisoners, with a maximum capacity of 1,800 prisoners; more than 80% of those held in prison have paid work in one of the three private companies operating inside the prison.
Economic necessity forces prisoners to accept low payments from manufacturing companies, as various criminal groups ask prisoners for quotas to allegedly ensure their protection; these gangs of extortionists are made up of members of the Gulf Cartel and the Northeast Cartel, whose presence has been confirmed inside the prison by the authorities.
The collection of fees and self-government were the causes of the last riot inside the Apodaca Prison, which occurred at the beginning of January 2022, as the Secretary of State Security, Aldo Fasci Zuazua said that during working hours, two prisoners started a fight for 70 pesos, this caused a dispute between two groups of extortionists. Later, one of the attacked cells entered the bedroom of one of the leaders and set fire to the mattress. The authorities responded to the confrontation in a timely manner, in which at least five gangs were reportedly involved.
After news of the mutiny broke, relatives of the prisoners gathered outside the prison to demand information about the health of their loved ones, as they were aware of the security problems that had arisen in the prison.
The incident resulted in eight people injured, a white result compared to the violent events that occurred in this same place in 2012, in which 44 people were massacred to hide the escape of 30 members of Los Zetas.
According to official information, the murdered prisoners belonged to the Gulf Cartel, who lost their lives thanks to the complicity of custodians who worked in the prison at the time of the violent acts, as told by Rodrigo Medina, former governor of Nuevo León who had been imprisoned during the administration of the Bronco.
A year before the massacre of 44 prisoners, in 2011, 14 men were killed in an alleged fire inside the prison, as the authorities assured that the fire had ended the lives of the deceased, but various sources close to the fact stated that the bodies showed beatings and signs of torture, which meant that the bodies were beaten and tortured. suspected a probable cover-up of violent events.
After the quarrel inside the Apodaca Prison earlier this year, a blanket was placed outside the prison, in which director Javier Navarro was asked to end the extortion committed inside him; three subjects were identified as the alleged perpetrators of these crimes by whom expressed the complaint.
Previously, several social media users reported the appearance of blankets addressed to Samuel García, governor of Nuevo León, which show alleged acts of corruption by the leaders of the Apodaca Prison.
“Apoco you don't realize that the scourges you have of Orlando Quintero Alvares aka “Alvares” “Castulo” and Eduardo Guerrero Duran aka “Guerrero” are spent celebrating with women, buying new cars in cash with the money they get from extortion and collection of fees that are made inside the Apodaca Prison” (sic), you could read in the blanket.
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