Elite Mexican Army Deserters Engineer Mass Prison Break

This story demonstrates the unrestrained power of organized drug traffickers.

Last October, thirty-one (31) elite special forces paratroopers deserted the Special Air Mobile Force Group of the Mexican Army and joined the drug trafficking gang called the Gulf Cartel.

Two days ago, at least twenty-five (25) of the deserters and/or their trainees stormed the Michoacan State Prison in Apatzingan, 200 miles west of Mexico City, to free five Gulf Cartel killers.

Twenty-five convicts escaped. Six were recaptured, leaving nineteen (19) armed and "highly dangerous" convicts at large.

In summary, the Mexican government recruits and trains an elite army group and it gets picked apart by the drug cartels through some sort of Latin American free agency. Then they turn around and shoot at the soldiers, probably their friends, in their former outfit.

The power of the drug cartel overcomes any sense of loyalty or of right and wrong. They will not be defeated without the application of overwhelming armed force.