Drug-lord's luxury cell

[Hope]

http://www.bbc.co.uk/news/world-latin-america-36934612

How come he had a 3-room cell?!?

[floo]

CRAZY!

[Brownie]

He paid for it Hope.  Money talks in places like that.  Life is grim for inmates who have no money.  It seems he was pretty popular in the jail!  I don't have a problem with the cell, if the corrupt prison system in Paraguay allows it, who can blame him for taking advantage.  However it looks as though he was planning to blow himself out of the prison, despite being due for release next year.  He obviously didn't want to be extradited to Brazil, maybe there are people waiting to 'get him' there.  Yet surely he was big and powerful enough to be able to elude extradition?

We'll never know, one of life's mysteries - which won't cause us any loss of sleep.

I can imagine a film being made out this!

[Hope]

We'll never know, one of life's mysteries - which won't cause us any loss of sleep.

Unless we happen to one of the unfortunates who lose a family member or friend as a result of this guy's drug business, of course.

[Étienne d'Angleterre]

http://www.bbc.co.uk/news/world-latin-america-36934612

How come he had a 3-room cell?!?

I see you can find time to start new threads but can't find time to address the ones with difficult questions.

And you accuse others of a cop-out!

[Brownie]

Not appropriate for this thread Stephen, honestly  .

Hope I hadn't thought of it like it.  Doesn't seem very real to me, so far away.  I was more interested in how he got his 'cell' than what he was in for!  Did he force anyone to buy drugs from him - or to  take them?  We don't know much about the man, it's easy to stereotype.  What you posted was merely a link to a BBC report, from another country, with Daily Mail type headlines. 

In this country there are people who live in a society, or community, where drug dealing is considered to be a relatively clean way of making a living and climbing out of poverty!  It must be even more so in Paraguay.  I'm not saying it is right but we don't know what we'd do if we were young, deprived and living in squalor, looking at the stars and dreaming.

[floo]

I see you can find time to start new threads but can't find time to address the ones with difficult questions.

And you accuse others of a cop-out!

True!

[Sassy]

http://www.bbc.co.uk/news/world-latin-america-36934612

How come he had a 3-room cell?!?

We all know he had a 3 room Cell because in that Country being a drug baron means you can have the prison guards and their families murdered. Which would you choose to do keep him in prison in Luxury or keep him in prison no Luxury and have your family murdered. No one can judge at least he was in prison and if paying for it, himself. It should have been left but added guards put on.

It isn't Britain and that would be the only way of curbing his power move him to another Country especially America.

[Brownie]

Absolute right.

[Udayana]

We all know he had a 3 room Cell because in that Country being a drug baron means you can have the prison guards and their families murdered. Which would you choose to do keep him in prison in Luxury or keep him in prison no Luxury and have your family murdered. No one can judge at least he was in prison and if paying for it, himself. It should have been left but added guards put on.

It isn't Britain and that would be the only way of curbing his power move him to another Country especially America.

We could have him here?

[Brownie]

You gonna invite him? 

[Udayana]

Maybe there is still room in Sassy's dungeon?

[Brownie]

Sounds like a themed restaurant with chilli, hot wings and ribs on the menu.  Not to mention sword fish.

Supposing he did come here and was caught for drug dealing, I wonder how far his money would go in the British prison system (where he could spend quite a long time whilst fighting extradition).  Money talks wherever you are though I doubt it would stretch to a three roomed suite.

Really would make an interesting film.