Author Topic: Mexican Vigilantes Battling Drug Cartel (Read 1899 times)

Marlelar · « **Reply #5 on:** January 16, 2014, 12:58:54 AM »

I don't know. :confused1: I noticed here in this sub-forum yesterday, never saw it under "general".

I know Matthew has been moving things around but I would have expected it in the politics section.

Marsha

poche · « **Reply #6 on:** January 16, 2014, 01:00:33 AM »

Quote from: bowler

I posted this in the General category, how'd it end up in the Resistance? This has nothing to do with the Resistance.

Is it the mexican people resisting evil?

poche · « **Reply #7 on:** January 16, 2014, 02:10:23 AM »

Vigilante groups battling a powerful drug cartel in a troubled region of Mexico on Tuesday rejected a government call to lay down their arms, raising the risk of an increased security headache for President Enrique Pena Nieto.

On Monday, Mexico's Interior Ministry ordered the heavily armed vigilantes to cease fighting the Knights Templar gang in the western state of Michoacan, where violent confrontations have converged on the city of Apatzingan in the last few days.

http://news.yahoo.com/mexico-vigilantes-refuse-lay-down-arms-troubled-state-185520554.html

The Mexican ggernment cannot protect the people from the drug cartels and they want teh people to surrender their weapons so that they can be vulnerable to death from the cartels? Who is the Mexican government protecting?

poche · « **Reply #8 on:** January 16, 2014, 11:39:04 PM »

Mexican vigilante militias battling drug-traffickers in the restive state of Michoacan said Thursday they had returned several hundred acres of land seized from villagers by the notorious Knights Templar cartel.

The symbolic handover of some 654 acres (265 hectares) of land, which included many avocado and lemon orchards, took place in the village square of Tancitaro in the Michoacan highlands.

"Citizens, businessmen, farmers, people in the communities are bewildered by these narcos. Let's get them out of our land," militia leader Estanislao Beltran told AFP at the end of the ceremony.

Civilians first took up arms in February 2013 to oust the Knights Templar from the region, saying local police were either colluding with gangs or unable to deal with the violence and extortion rackets.

Since then, officials have alleged that at least some civilian militias were backed by a cartel, with critics noting that they used unlawful assault rifles that gangs usually own.

Mexico's federal police and army troops are currently waging a major operation aimed at wresting back control of Michoacan from the Knights Templar gang.

Federal security forces have also clashed with vigilantes who have refused to give up their weapons.

Beltran said Thursday his militia group would not lay down their arms and would continue to try and recover land seized by cartels, demanding the capture of drug lords before any disarmament.

Michoacan, where much of the population lives in poverty, has become the most pressing security issue facing Mexico President Enrique Pena Nieto, who inherited a bloody war on drugs from his predecessor in 2012 that has left more than 77,000 people dead since it was launched in 2006.

http://news.yahoo.com/mexico-anti-drug-militias-return-land-villagers-002639226.html

bowler · « **Reply #9 on:** January 19, 2014, 04:13:13 AM »

Quote from: poche

Vigilante groups battling a powerful drug cartel in a troubled region of Mexico on Tuesday rejected a government call to lay down their arms,

If they put down their arms they will all be killed. It will be Cristeros II. Once one starts fighting, you must complete the job. Any "peace treaty" before completion will end up just like the Cristeros, dead.