Alejandro Rojas Chalico, the public security minister for Zacatecas, has handed in his resignation after 53 prisoners escaped with security guards standing by.

Alejando Rojas Chalico, the public security minister for Zacatecas, the northern state where the incident occurred, resigned six days after the escape.

Police are offering a $1 million peso reward for each inmate seen on security camera video taking less than three minutes to flee the prison.

An armed man posing as a commando in a police uniform had broken into Cieneguillas prison last Saturday and released the men.

Footage shows several trucks with police markings on them arriving at the jail. About 20 men then walked into that jail without any resistance from guards.

More than a dozen of escaped inmates are suspected members of the Zetas, the armed paramilitary wing of the Gulf Cartel, with involvement in kidnapping, extortion, and torture.

Prison guards told local media that they had been threatened by the Zetas in recent months.

Testamonies from custodians about the prisonbreak of 53 Zetas take the rescue to a complete other level. Statements have been declared citing high funcionaries of the prison not only knew about the upcoming rescue, but also took the necessary measures to facilitate it.

To date, 8 days after the rescue and despite nationwide manhunts and checkpoints, not one of the escapees has been captured.