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Lawyer Salvador David Navarro Ávila was appointed Monday as the new director of the South Men’s Preventive Prison, after at the end of January three prisoners managed to escape and thus cause the exits of the highest command of the place.
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According to the Government Secretariat of Mexico City, responsible for making the new appointment known, Man has more than three decades of experience in the public sector. I study law at the National Autonomous University of Mexico (UNAM) and has held various positions in the prison sector.
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And is that, In addition to having worked in the Federal Judiciary Council (CJF), the Secretariat of Public Security (now Citizen) of Mexico City, also did it in the General Directorate of Prisoners of the Federal District government, now called Undersecretariat of the Penitentiary System of the CDMX.
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For Navarro Ávila, the position will not be new, since He was the Deputy Technical Director of the Preventive Prison in the Male Oriente between 2004 and 2005. From then until January 2008, he directed the complex, same work that will play from now on in a new center of this type.
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And on January 29, three alleged members of the Sinaloa cartel escaped from the South Reclusorio, located on the outskirts of the Mexican capital. Among the fugitives is Víctor Manuel Félix Beltrán, The Vic, a former operator and family member of Joaquín “El Chapo” Guzmán.
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According to the first investigations, those in charge of conducting the surveillance rounds left the locks in zone 1 of the prison open from 7:00 p.m. on January 28 until 5:00 a.m. the next day, allowing the escape of the three prisoners.
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The secretary of Government of Mexico City, Rosa Icela Rodríguez, informed at the time that the vehicle in which they escaped were not examined according to the review protocols that consist of: automotive exploration below the drivers cabin, inside the box and transfer cabin, as well as the log of entry and exit of the vehicle.
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So far, preventive detention has been issued for nine of the 11 prison officers allegedly involved in the escape of the inmates. Judges María Cadena, Marcos Vargas, Ganter Alejandro Villar and Felipe de Jesús Delgadillo are also under investigation for having been those they requested and approved the entry of the last two defendants, while they also accepted the transfer of The Vic from the Maximum Security Criminal of the Altiplano to the South Prison.
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Navarro Ávila It will replace Tonatiuh Zamora Mendoza, who resigned a couple of days after the escape with the head of security of the complex, Óscar Labastida. Both left their positions after the administration headed by the head of government Claudia Sheinbaum requested them.
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For its part, Sheinbaum did not close the doors to the possible arrival of the National Guard to the South Reclusorio, to avoid that cases like the one that happened a couple of weeks ago are repeated. “Several measures are being taken in coordination with the federal government,” he said.
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“Security is being reinforced and even You are working with the Federal Ministry of Public Security, there is the possibility of the National Guard or some other support we can have, ”he added.
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