This is why the residents left here are taking matters into their own hands. Some patrol the area brandishing steel tubes for self-defense. “We’ve banded together and placed barricades,” said Zaldy Villanobos, one of the volunteers. They will likely continue their rounds until Christmas Eve.
And on a similar note: "Mexican State Seeks to Regularize Local Militias."
Lawmakers in the southern Mexican state of Guerrero approved a measure to incorporate the various community self-defense groups that have popped up in the Pacific coastal region into a new force under authorities’ control.“The rural police groups created in Guerrero communities will operate subordinate to the relevant authorities and institutions,” the state legislature said in a statement.
You mean the corrupt bastards that the militias were formed to fight because they didn't protect the people from the cartels and their own under-color-of-law depredations?
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