Posted on 07/09/2014 3:23:09 PM PDT by Lorianne
Armed residents are taking on the feared Zetas cartel in Tamaulipas state. One desperate town’s mayor applauds them ___ HIDALGO, Mexico — The gunmen nabbed watermelon farmer Jesus Manuel Guerrero as he drove from his ranch to buy supplies and held him for five painful days in the trunk of a car.
When family members finally paid a $120,000 ransom and they released him, he was urinating blood.
He’s just one of hundreds of victims of a wave of kidnapping that’s swept this once peaceful farming town, about 130 miles south of Texas.
But almost three years after his brutal abduction, Guerrero, who is now the mayor, says his town has become safer, the kidnappers scared to enter.
This change is not due to the police, he says, but to a clandestine vigilante group known as the Pedro Mendez Column, named after a local general who fought the French in the 19th century.
The column hands out leaflets declaring it operates night patrols to defend the community from the feared Zetas cartel, which is behind most of the kidnapping. The vigilantes have also claimed responsibility for several murders of alleged Zeta members, including two men shot dead in January.
“The column only kills kidnappers and drug traffickers. They don’t allow extortion or threaten honest people,” Guerrero told GlobalPost, speaking in his town hall, which is decorated with paintings of Mexico’s independence and revolutionary heroes.
“It is much safer with them.”
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The Mexican and Chinese elitists that make a ton of money for our corrupt pols, Wall Street banksters, their cousin drugsters, and globalist CEOs are putting the USA in the pits. They create corruption and not jobs.
Should we welcome them, or repel them as invaders? I say repel them as invaders regardless of Party because both are corrupt, and send them as corrupt anti-American pols to prison.
“Armed residents are taking on the feared Zetas cartel in Tamaulipas state. “
Will someone please explain to these morons that you have to be a highly trained, professional LEO to do this sort of job?
It’s not surprising that militias are rising in Mexico but it is kinda’ sad that it is happening simultaneously in America...
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