A former hitman who worked for the feared Sinaloa cartel has described the horrific aftermath of a Mexican prison riot.
Reformed “Sicario” Ali Gonzalez recalled a fight between gangland rivals saw one man being beheaded, with prison guards helpless to intervene.
According to Gonzalez, the prisons are effectively run by the cartels, and warders can do nothing, as they’re warned of deadly consequences on the outside. Prostitution and drug use are commonplace inside the jails and sometimes petty grievances boil over into savage violence.
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After realising that cartel bosses weren’t going to look after him as well as they’d promised, Gonzalez broke with them and ended up being transferred from a cushty jail to a maximum-security lockup with over 13,000 prisoners.
Just two weeks after he arrived, a riot broke out. “There was 14 people killed,” Gonzalez told LadBible. “The main boss was decapitated and they were playing basketball with his head. The anti-riot correctional officers came and they knocked on the door of the maximum security door but they weren't allowed in.”
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Gonzalez admitted killing dozens of rival gang members on the orders of his cartel bosses. In one particularly horrific case he tells how a hit went wrong after a gun jammed.
“I jumped out of the car, took the rifle, busted the bullet out, and cocked it back in and I shot him again,” he recalled. “This person was still in agony, trying to drag himself on to the pavement.
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“The rifle jammed again, so I basically went up to him and smashed him with the butt of the rifle until his head exploded. And that was it. I jumped back in the car and left.”
While he has turned his back on his life of crime, he has no regrets about what he did during his years as a cartel enforcer because he "never killed anyone who was innocent".
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