From cartel prison to children's playground: the transformation of Mexican World Cup host Monterrey

MONTERREY, Mexico, June 9 - On a recent afternoon in northern Mexico, about a dozen children played soccer in an idyllic park on a site where, a decade earlier, 49 people had died in a vicious battle between two warring cartels fighting for control of one of Mexico's most violent prisons.

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