Paraguayan Army soldiers are seen next to an army tank near of the border prison, where prisoners, housed in a gallery for members of Brazil's First Capital Command (PCC) gang, broke out of the jail in Pedro Juan Caballero, Paraguay January 22, 2020. Picture taken January 22, 2020. REUTERS/Gabriel Stargardter
PEDRO JUAN CABALLERO, Paraguay (Reuters) - Luis Alves da Cruz awoke around 3 a.m. to a commotion in the Paraguayan prison he called home.
A small-time Brazilian drug smuggler, da Cruz saw fellow inmates dressed head-to-toe in black. "We're breaking out," one of them told him. "Are you coming?"
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