Mexico's Masked Vigilantes Defy Drug Gangs

Mexicans take charge of their own destiny.

Lesson learned: It is the PEOPLE who are legitimately in charge- NOT an incompetent, uncaring, unrepresentative government
For years, villages in rural Mexico have been terrorized by drug gangs and organized crime groups. Now, armed militias are taking control--running patrols, raiding the homes of suspected mafia and detaining prisoners. .

AYUTLA, Mexico—Masked men, rifles slung over their shoulders, stand guard on a lonely rural road, checking IDs and questioning travelers. They wear no uniforms, flash no badges, but they are the law here now.

A dozen villages in the area have risen up in armed revolt against local drug traffickers that have terrorized the region and a government that residents say is incapable of protecting them from organized crime.

The villages in the hilly southern Mexican state of Guerrero now forbid the Mexican army and state and federal police from entering. Ragtag militias carrying a motley arsenal of machetes, old hunting rifles and the occasional AR-15 semiautomatic rifle control the towns. Strangers aren't allowed entry. There is a 10 p.m. curfew. More than 50 prisoners, accused of being in drug gangs, sit in makeshift jails. Their fates hinge on public trials that began Thursday when the accused were arraigned before villagers, who will act as judge and jury.

Crime is way down—for the moment, at least. Residents say kidnapping ceased when the militias took charge, as did the extortions that had become the scourge of businessmen and farmers alike. The leader of one militia group, who uses the code name G-1 but was identified by his compatriots as Gonzalo Torres, puts it this way: "We brought order back to a place where there had been chaos. We were able to do in 15 days what the government was not able to do in years."



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"We were able to do in 15 days what the government was not able to do in years." Sometimes the government and the criminals are one in the same. I still don't have a gun but I am going to get a semi-automatic machete or two this week.

The Mexican Constitution has its own Second Amendment, Article 10, regarding the right to bear arms: "Article 10. The inhabitants of the United Mexican States are entitled to have arms of any kind in their possession for their protection and legitimate defense, except such as are expressly forbidden by law, or which the nation may reserve for the exclusive use of the army, navy, or national guard; but they may not carry arms within inhabited places without complying with police regulations."

"Sometimes the government and the criminals are one in the same. "

Mexican mayors admit paying cartels to stay alive...

"Sometimes the government and the criminals are one in the same. "

And sometimes "America's most trusted" news organizations also sell out the truth.
They can't sell out the trust because nobody really cares.
It's as if the O.J. Simpson jury rules the world.


"In a shocking New York Times opinion piece, CNN's chief news executive Eason Jordan has admitted that for the past decade the network has systematically covered up stories of Iraqi atrocities. Reports of murder, torture, and planned assassinations were suppressed in order to maintain CNN's Baghdad bureau."

"Over the last dozen years I made 13 trips to Baghdad to lobby the government to keep CNN's Baghdad bureau open and to arrange interviews with Iraqi leaders. Each time I visited, I became more distressed by what I saw and heard -- awful things that could not be reported because doing so would have jeopardized the lives of Iraqis, particularly those on our Baghdad staff."
Read Jordan's op-ed at:
http://www.nytimes.c...ion/11JORD.html

Hiding the Truth

Edited by Rogerdodger, 08 February 2013 - 07:22 PM.