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Mexico's government plans on
Saturday to begin demobilizing a vigilante movement of assault
rifle-wielding ranchers and farmers that formed in the western state of
Michoacan and succeeded in largely expelling the Knights Templar cartel
when state and local authorities couldn't.
The ceremony
in the town of Tepalcatepec, where the movement began in February 2013,
will involve the registration of thousands of guns by the federal
government and an agreement that the so-called "self-defense" groups
will either join a new official rural police force or return to their
normal lives and acts as voluntary reserves when called on.
The government will go town by town to organize and recruit the new rural forces.
"This is a process of giving legal standing to the self-defense forces," said vigilante leader Estanislao Beltran.
But
tension remained on Friday in the coastal part of the state outside the
port of Lazaro Cardenas, where other "self-defense" groups plan to
continue as they are, defending their territory without registering
their arms. Vigilantes against the demobilization have set up roadblocks
in the coastal town of Caleta.
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If the locals are smart they will run the federales out of town ASAP. Because once the
ReplyDeletegovernment "organizes" them they will then be ripe for coercion, co opting and bribery.
The Mexican government will "organize" them right out of existence then the cartels will be right back in control.
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DeleteSomeone in the government or federal police will sell their names to the cartel....after that you and your family are dead.
ReplyDeleteThe one group has it correct.
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