Latin America
Paraguay’s biggest prison set ablaze, rioting inmates take guards hostage
The Tacumbu penitentiary houses nearly 4,000 inmates in a ramshackle, tin-roof building and, according to local security experts, gangs exert near-total influence over life inside
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