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Weekly Report -18 January 2005
MEXICO: Army to help root out narco grip on prisons
President Vicente Fox has ordered the army to provide the muscle for a multi-agency contingent charged with running the country's premier high-security prison, La Palma, after an undercover operation revealed that it had virtually fallen under the control of imprisoned drug barons, acting through a tight network of inmates and guards. The move may be the first step towards a broader purge of the prison system, apparently as infiltrated by the drug gangs as the other law enforcement agencies.
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