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    Default Mexican Vigilantes Seize Town, Arrest Police..!



    03/27/13

    ACAPULCO, Mexico -- Hundreds of armed vigilantes have taken control of a town on a major highway in the Pacific coast state of Guerrero, arresting local police officers and searching homes after a vigilante leader was killed. Several opened fire on a car of Mexican tourists headed to the beach for Easter week.

    Members of the area's self-described "community police" say more than 1,500 members of the force were stopping traffic Wednesday at improvised checkpoints in the town of Tierra Colorado, which sits on the highway connecting Mexico City to Acapulco. They arrested 12 police and the former director of public security in the town after a leader of the state's vigilante movement was slain on Monday.

    A tourist heading to the beach with relatives was slightly wounded Tuesday after they refused to stop at a roadblock and vigilantes fired shots at their car, officials said.

    The vigilantes accuse the ex-security director of participating in the killing of vigilante leader Guadalupe Quinones Carbajal, 28, on behalf of local organized crime groups and dumping his body in a nearby town on Monday. They reported seizing several high-powered rifles from his car, and vigilantes were seen toting a number of sophisticated assault rifles on Wednesday, although it was not clear if all had been taken from the ex-security director's car.

    "We have besieged the municipality, because here criminals operate with impunity in broad daylight, in view of municipal authorities. We have detained the director of public security because he is involved with criminals and he knows who killed our commander," said Bruno Placido Valerio, a spokesman for the vigilante group.

    Placido said vigilantes had searched a number of homes in the town and seized drugs from some. They turned over the ex-security director and police officers to state prosecutors, who agreed to investigate their alleged ties to organized crime.

    The growing movement of "self-defense" vigilante groups has seen masked townspeople throw up checkpoints in several parts of southern and western Mexico, stopping passing motorists to search for weapons or people whose names are on hand-written lists of "suspects" wanted for crimes like theft and extortion.

    The vigilantes have opened fire before on motorists who refused to stop, slightly wounding a pair of tourists from Mexico City visiting a local beach in early February.

    The groups say they are fighting violence, kidnappings and extortions carried out by drug cartels, but concerns have surfaced that the vigilantes may be violating the law, the human rights of people they detain, or even cooperating with criminals in some cases.

    http://www.huffingtonpost.com/2013/0...n_2968463.html

    PS - This comment sums it all up for me...

    Bill Bard says:

    Quote Mexicans aren’t going to "F" about. Not the time to be a crooked politician.
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    Default Re: Mexican Vigilantes Seize Town, Arrest Police..!

    This is actually quite interesting in that citizens taking action.
    Perhaps there is hope for change.

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    Default Re: Mexican Vigilantes Seize Town, Arrest Police..!

    These kinds of stories concern me as it tends to paint a very negative picture of Mexico and it's people. Yes, the story may be true; however, it's important to remember that Mexico is a beautiful country with a rich history as well as warm, gracious and welcoming people. I've spent many happy vacations there and have many friends who live there happily.

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    This is a sad story, but even sadder is the fact that, the local police and authorities are working with the drug cartels in most towns in the country, but not by their own will, but by order of the higher authorities in turn which could be the state governor which in turn is obeying orders from the president (federal government)that is on the payroll of the most powerful drug cartels at this time. The federal government will not investigate sh... they do not care about the people, they let the drug cartels come and take charge of entire towns and cities and even help in the process by allowing the federal police to pillage, extort and kidnap citizens at their leisure, no strings attached. They let them keep guns and drugs from "arrests"they make and once they have "green" light for a specific town, these gorillas are unstoppable. The army is a lesser bad because they are more disciplinned force, they do obey and respond to a specific command but they are also working for whoever the federal goverment tells them to, mostly protect mariguana plantations or drug routes for the rulling cartel. The people of Tierra Colorada are a bunch of brave and fed up citizens that are workimg against the odds. And also putting out fire with fire, I really don't know anymore. This "war on drugs" started more than twelve years ago, and since then the toll has been they admit to more than 80.000 killed by drug related reasons, but the number of disapeared persons is very much higher more on the line of 300,000.In this number you can include, many, many innocent people: children of all ages, women, men ...reporter is a job that requires a big set of... and the death number keeps growing day by day. Also sad to say many of those deaths where caused by the federal police and the army.I live in a town where 80% of the bussiness had to close and if you are still open you live with the nice thought of being attacked if not by anybody who doesn't give a damn anymore or by someone in a uniform. This year's gotten a little better but it's by no means over. We live every day on the edge of madness, so we tend to really appreciate family and friends a lot.

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    Default Re: Mexican Vigilantes Seize Town, Arrest Police..!

    Quote Posted by Vitalux (here)
    This is actually quite interesting in that citizens taking action.
    Perhaps there is hope for change.
    Shooting at tourists is not quite the change we need.
    The quantum field responds not to what we want; but to who we are being. Dr. Joe Dispenza

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    Default Re: Mexican Vigilantes Seize Town, Arrest Police..!

    Quote Posted by conk (here)
    Quote Posted by Vitalux (here)
    This is actually quite interesting in that citizens taking action.
    Perhaps there is hope for change.
    Shooting at tourists is not quite the change we need.
    Having said that 'Look' at 'Who' wrote and 'Spun' the article - Enough said...

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