Mexico essentially legalized the country’s growing “self-defense” groups Monday, while also announcing that security forces had captured one of the four top leaders of the Knights Templar drug cartel, which the vigilante groups have been fighting for the last year.
The government said it had reached an agreement with vigilante leaders to incorporate the armed civilian groups into old and largely forgotten quasi-military units called the Rural Defense Corps. Vigilante groups estimate their numbers at 20,000 men under arms.
The twin announcements may help the administration of President Enrique Pena Nieto find a way out of an embarrassing situation in the western state of Michoacan, where vigilantes began rising up last February against the Knights Templar reign of terror and extortion after police and troops failed to stop the abuses.
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6 comments:
Are we anywhere near doing this?
Yeah for Obama... Isn't he drug cartel?
For the thugs playing the knockout game.
When will our state gov't authorize this??
We will never make it legal , however , I do predict this country will see more of it very soon.
This has to be a bogus story. The parties are still raging in Annapolis.
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