At least 141 inmates escaped Friday from a prison in Mexico's northeast border city of Nuevo Laredo, CNN reported.

CNN报道，本周五在墨西哥东北部的边境城市新拉雷多至少有141名囚犯逃狱。

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The prison is located in the city of Nuevo Laredo, just across the border from Texas in the northeastern state of Tamaulipas.

监狱位于新拉雷多市，正对面是塔毛利帕斯州东北部的得克萨斯州的边界。

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In June, in the border city of Nuevo Laredo, the police chief and then his successor were gunned down in drug-related shootings, the second chief just hours after he took office.

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In addition to affording the harvesters a living, the peyote business helps funnel the dollars of Indian peyote-seekers to restaurants and hotels in large cities like Laredo as well as small towns like Rio Grande City, which is home to five of the seven licensed harvesters.

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