Fed up with corruption, thousands of armed vigilantes take over Mexican town and arrest the police
by: J. D. Heyes
NaturalNews.com
Saturday, April 06, 2013
The country of Mexico has been a de facto narco-state for years, as competing drug cartels bought off the police, judges, local officials and journalists they could, killed those they could not, and battled each other for turf. Throughout it all, the collateral damage has been heavy; in the past decade alone, tens of thousands have died, including scores of civilians, though the exact number is unknown because authorities say they are sure all of the victims have yet to be discovered.
Such carnage has frozen many Mexican towns in fear, but some – finally – are beginning to fight back. One of them, Tierra Colorado – a city of about 20,000 located in the state of Guerrero, in southwester Mexico – has formed its own “vigilante” group, to battle the cartels as well as the police they have corrupted.
The self-described “community police” force of about 1,500 took over recently and arrested police officers there after their “commander” was killed and his body dumped in the street, various reports said.
The vigilantes arrested 12 officers and the town’s one-time director of public security, each of whom they accused of having a role in the killing of Guadalupe Quinones Carbajal, 28, at the behest of a local drug cartel.
‘We have besieged the municipality’
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