WORLD IN BRIEF : MEXICO : Drug Lord in Prison Standoff Surrenders
From Times Staff and Wire Reports
A jailed drug baron surrendered to Mexican authorities, giving up control of a state prison two weeks after a shootout that killed 18 people and showed the power and privileges he enjoyed behind bars. Oliverio Chavez Araujo and one of his lieutenants left the Matamoros prison near the U.S.-Mexican border under heavy guard and were flown to Mexico City. The governor of the northern state of Tamaulipas, Americo Villareal, later fired the prison warden.
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