by Jose OSORIO Agence France-Presse MEXICO (AFP)- More than a century after Mexico established a prison on the Maria Islands — a Pacific archipelago eight hours by boat from the mainland — the country’s new government has decided to close it. But some prisoners didn’t want to leave the tropical jail. The inmates and guards on the islands — the Islas Marias, as they are known in Spanish — stayed put even when powerful Hurricane […]





