Vigilantes Take Control of 8 Communities in Southern Mexico

[QuietDan]

Things that make you go . . . hmmmmmmm . . .

 

 

Vigilantes Take Control of 8 Communities in Southern Mexico

 

CHILPANCINGO, Mexico – Hundreds of armed men belonging to community self-defense groups occupied eight small towns near Chilpancingo, capital of the southern Mexican state of Guerrero, and detained a dozen suspected extortionists, a spokesperson for the vigilantes said.

The action was taken due to the “federal government’s poor response” in ensuring the security of the state’s inhabitants, Gonzalo Torres, a coordinator of the Citizen Safety and Justice System, or SSyJC, organization, said Friday.

The vigilantes said they seized control of the towns, all part of the municipality of Chilpancingo, because their residents are the victims of criminal gangs that extort and kidnap business owners.

The SSyJC was founded in Jan. 4, 2013, in the town of Ayutla de los Libres to combat the criminal outfits and has since extended its reach to communities located near the cities of Acapulco and Chilpancingo.

“Our presence here is because citizens in this area asked us to come, because they’re tired of there being extortions, payment of protection money and kidnappings every day,” Torres said.

Roughly 500 inhabitants of the town of Ocotito gathered Friday in the main square to express their support for the community self-defense groups in their struggle against the Los Rojos gang, the former armed wing of the now-defunct Beltran Leyva cartel.

The vigilantes are patrolling the streets and also maintaining checkpoints on the federal highway linking Chilpancingo and Acapulco.

Chilpancingo Mayor Mario Moreno acknowledged that the community self-defense groups already control the towns of Cajeles, Buena Vista, El Rincon, Mohoneras, Dos Caminos, Carrizal, La Haciendita and Ocotito, local media reported.

But he said his government was in talks with their leaders and hoped an agreement could be reached this weekend.

Community self-defense groups and community police forces have also been formed in more than a dozen of the 113 municipalities in the neighboring state of Michoacan.

A federal offensive in that western state began Jan. 13 with an attempt to forcibly disarm militias that arose to defend communities from the Caballeros Templarios (Knights Templar) cartel, but after four people died in a confrontation with soldiers, the Mexican government changed tack in favor of cooperation with the vigilantes.

Mistrust persists, however, and the militias, who get financial backing from business owners tired of paying protection money to the Templarios, say they will hand over their weapons and stand down only after the entire cartel leadership is behind bars.

 

 

 

http://www.laht.com/article.asp?CategoryId=14091&ArticleId=1521817

[runco]

It is spreading north.  I understand the Mexican government will not admit to it, or plays it down.

 

Same story on TTAG: 

http://www.thetruthaboutguns.com/2014/01/robert-farago/mexican-revolution-spreading/

http://www.thetruthaboutguns.com/2014/01/robert-farago/guns-mexican-revolution/

 

Here is a picture of the Militia high power guns:

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[173rdABN]

Get some!!

Take note Obama.

Also note, we have better guns.

[TrickyNicky]

Well I'll be damned , way to go Mexico! Wonder how long it will last against the cartel though...

[runco]

I think I see my old Remington 22 bolt action.  Say hey.................maybe thats why it has never turned up since it was stolen.  Its not even in the U.S. anymore!   The original Fast and Furious prequel.

[QuietDan]

A coupla SF A Teams would go along way . . .

 

As well as a submarine delivery or three ala WWII Liberation of the Philippines.

[QuietDan]

The T-shirts and the Ball Caps in the picture look as if they may be "A Uniform" under the International Law of Armed Conflict. If they have Colonels, Majors, Captains, Lieutenants, First Sergeants, Sergeants and Privates, that goes along way toward "a well-regulated militia. They are marching in the streets in two reasonably organized columns. I wish I could read the logos on the ball caps and T-shirts. These basic "uniforms" also suggest community support from merchants and well . . . T-Shirt printers and such.

[Refleks]

Good on them! Honestly the best way to solve the immigration and much of the drug issue here is to fix mexico. Corruption begets corruption unfortunately but if that cycle can be broken for a generation then they could see some real changes. Standard of living would improve and they wouldn't need to leave to seek better opportunity. Like post war japan they may even get to the point where we end up much more successful economically and find some niche to become lucrative trade partners and it's proximity permits lower costs compared to shipping from china.

More importantly it serves as a buffer between the US and central/south america.

Alas for something like that to occur I am afraid it would take a long time. If they aren't ready to stand up for themselves we would be hard pressed to be able to do much. I'm glad to see citizens there fed up and taking a stand especially after reports of complete lawlessness in some towns.

[Garufa]

It's amazing what determined people armed only with shotguns, .22's and maybe some .38 Specials can do.

[markshere2]

It's worth noting that the cartels have tons of money and guns.

 

This kind of supports the theory that "it's not the gun that kills, it's the person."

[Guest TankerHC]

Been going on for a few weeks. First i had heard about it about 3 week's ago they had taken 3 towns and removed the drug cartels. The army refused to go in and they were operating with what they had. Shotguns, hunting rifles and some had even made their own rifles.

We have Civil War on our Southern border.

Freedom Fighters sick of living under the repression of a useless Government and out of control drug cartels.

Yet simultaneously people in Arizona are warned to stay out of three of their own counties because Mexican drug cartels have all but taken over and our Government refuses to even try to enforce our laws.



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