Welcome to Mexico. Does the name "Hidalgo" mean anything to you?
"Police sent in from outside don't know where the criminals are," Lopez said. "We know of 10 warehouses where they are hiding armed men; they (federal police) aren't going to find them.""
Wow. Even the priests are with the vigilantes.
Good on ‘em!
I believe it was an annonymous vigilante force which brought down the Pablo Escobar criminal army in Columbia.
I prefer "citizens with the God-given right to defend themselves and their families", but I guess that's too much for a newspaper to use instead of the word "vigilante".
Reminds me of a scene in VIVA ZAPATA in which the peasants have won the war, the politicians have taken over, and are being disarmed. Then the Army attacks them.
The police have been bought off by the cartels, and everyone knows it.
For the past several YEARS, the Mexican gov has done nothing to help these villagers against the drug gangs. Now that the villagers have armed up and defended themselves against the cartels, the gov shows up and tries to disarm the villagers? And anybody can’t guess who’s side the government is on?
DEA, Sinaloa Cartel in Secret Cooperation for Years
Uncle Scam runs the big drug cartels in Mexico just like it runs Al Qaeda in Syria.
The Mexican federalis are disarming the locals at the behest of the big drug cartels and Uncle Scam. Uncle Scam does the same thing in this country. It protects the criminal class and tries to disarm the decent citizenry.
If Uncle Scam and the Mexican Federalis weren't partners with the big drug cartels they could take them out in a week. All they have to do is use the NSA to find out who the cartel guys are and kill them.
Very interesting that the Mexican government is more interested in disarming the people rather than disarming the cartels sucking the lifeblood out of the people.