Posted on 09/19/2007 3:18:35 PM PDT by SwinneySwitch
VILLA NUEVA, Guatemala - Slum dwellers armed with shotguns have taken to Guatemala's streets to hand vigilante justice to youth gangs as voters sick of crime increasingly back a hardline ex-general's run for president.
Roving bands of masked men communicating over walkie-talkies and armed with sticks, machetes and shotguns patrol the poor Villa Nueva slum on the edge of Guatemala City at night looking for members of infamous "Mara" gangs.
The well-organized patrols, whose secretive members are suspicious of outsiders, killed at least one gang member, David Castillo alias "The Siren", earlier this month.
"It's another war," said resident Sheni Godinez, 46, who had to borrow money to pay gang members $650 for the right to live in Villa Nueva, home to 500,000 people, many of whom live in zinc-roofed wooden houses.
The surge in violence in one of Latin America's most crime-ridden countries could help ex-Gen. Otto Perez Molina win the presidency when he faces center-leftist Alvaro Colom in the second round of the vote on November 4.
Perez Molina came second in the first round vote this month but his campaign is gathering steam. He promises to use the death penalty more often and declare a state of emergency in crime-hit areas like Villa Nueva.
Despite the military's black record in Guatemala -- soldiers were responsible for most of the some 250,000 deaths in a 36-year civil war that ended in 1996 -- some feel crime is so bad that they are willing to take a chance with Perez Molina.
"I believe the general can help us to live without this anxiety that haunts us. When you get on the bus, you don't know if you are going to get out alive with all these attacks," said Ruben Estuardo, a 42-year-old salesman.
GANGS TERRORIZE
Gangs like the infamous...
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needs to happen in America if the Muzzies try to take control!
In the words of Clint Eastman:
“Get three coffins ready...my mistake make it four”.
Just great, now there’ll be even more pressure on these ‘poor, hard-working folk’ to move to any number of sanctuary cities in the United States!!
In the words of Clint Eastman:
“Get three coffins ready...my mistake make it four”.
In the words of Clint Eastwood:
“Get three coffins ready..(Blam) (Blam) (Blam)..(Blam)....my mistake, make it four.”
It’s a good thing our borders are so secure that these gangbangers won’t be tempted to come up here.
Needs to happen NOW before the Muzzies take control
It will probably need to happen here anyway with MS-13 because Jorge Arbusto and a sizable portion of Congress don't give a rat's ass about border enforcement.
This needs to happen in a lot of communities in America regardless of what the muzzies do.
And don’t forget the severe punishment that awaits them.
;^)
Vigilantes, despite decades of Hollywood programming, were, essentially, good things in the American West. When law was controlled by criminals or absent altogether, the only recourse was for citizens to eliminate the criminal threat.
They did, and we’re better for it.
I would agree with you, but unfortunately its going to take some serious shocks to our country before enough of a critical mass of folks decide we need to wake up, repent, renergize in spirit and in truth, reinvest in our country’s survival...and RE-ARM !
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