Posted on 11/09/2013 2:23:25 AM PST by Cincinatus' Wife
TEPALCATEPEC, Mexico — For lime grower Hipolito Mora, it was time to organize and pick up arms when a packing company controlled by a brutal drug cartel refused to buy his fruit. For Bishop Miguel Patino Velazquez, it was seeing civilians forced to fight back with their own guns that made him speak out. For Leticia, a lime picker too afraid of retribution to give her last name, it was the day she saw a taxi driver kidnapped in front of his two young children that persuaded her to join those taking the law into their own hands.
In Mexico, they call it “the drop that makes the glass overflow,” and it came at different points for the people living for years in fear of the brutal Knights Templar in the western Valley of Apatzingan, an emerald green tapestry of orchards bordered by blue-gray peaks.
“We lived in bondage, threatened by organized crime,” said Leticia, 40, who ekes out a living by picking fruit and selling chicken on the side. “They wanted to treat people like animals.”
Eight months after locals formed self-defense groups, they say they are free of the cartel in six municipalities of the Tierra Caliente, or “Hot Land,” which earned its moniker for the scorching weather but whose name has come to signify criminal activity.
What's more, the self-defense group leaders, who are clearly breaking Mexican law by picking up military-style arms to fight criminals, say the federal government is no longer arresting them, but it's recruiting them to help federal forces identify cartel members.
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I wonder if Holder/Obama will send them weapons?
I do hope the Mexican people can beat the cartels.
They’re arresting hundreds of local police in many municipalities.
An armed citizen is a safe citizen.
It’s the smart thing to do: even here, 300 miles from the Mexican border, I am armed every day. The Zetas operate freely in this city and own police officers who escort their drug shipments through the metropolitan area. Between the Trayvons and the drug lords, it is unwise to go about unarmed in this city.
It should have happened sooner.
But better late than never.
When people hear of American guns going south to Mexico, they should know that most of them are going to people like this.
Jose, in Los Estados Unidos, knows that Uncle Juan needs a rifle or shotgun. He picks up an old Revelation .22 at a garage sale for $75, and smuggles it down to Uncle Juan the next time he visits home.
That type of transaction likely accounts for 90% of the guns smuggled into Mexico.
Only ill-conceived, un-”common sense” gun control laws can defeat them. Denying the People the right of self defense is what Obama and Holder want.
And amnesty will open the door in America
Where do they get the ammunition?
Bad move giving her first name. The cartels will kill every ‘Leticia’ in Central America to get her. They WILL do a better job than King Herod.
Drugs bring in as much money as Mexico's oil exports. If the cartels were beaten, Mexico would collapse into a deep recession or worse.
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Drug trafficking is a lucrative activity for the Mexican cartels, generating estimated annual revenues of US$35 billion to US$45 billion for Mexico, with a profit margin of approximately 80%.
http://knowledge.wharton.upenn.edu/article/drug-trafficking-violence-and-mexicos-economic-future/
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http://www.indexmundi.com/mexico/oil_exports.html
The drug cartels create chaos in the Mexican economy affecting our social and economic situation adversely. I recently saw a very graphic clip of masked cartel members chopping the heads off four women who worked for another cartel. These are not humans but beasts in human form. No different than the Islamic fiends. They must be treated mercilessly.
“the drop that makes the glass overflow,”
I really, really like that expression.
As for these folks, more power to them. Fear is a big part of any gang’s power. When folks rise up like this, much of the power is taken away. I have no doubt the cartels will continue to use violence, but to paraphrase The Doors, “They’ve got the guns, but we got the numbers...and now we’ve got the guns, too.”
BTW, can anyone identify the rifle in the middle (the one with the drum)? The buttstock on that weapon looks rather unusual. Be interested to know what make/model it is.
I hate the term, “taking the law in their own hands,” as though these people are somehow outside of events. The law is always in the hands of the people though, in our system, we designate representatives to uphold the law. When our representatives fail in their duties, it is incumbent upon the populace to see that the job gets done or else, as these Mexicans found, live under tyrany.
From the article: ““We lived in bondage, threatened by organized crime,””
So what’s the difference???
I mean our very own democrat party is basically organized crime and we’ve lived in bondage since 2008.
Welcome to the NWO.
The NWO is a two party criminal organization. Until we recognize this, we will keep electing their puppets.
Sounds like they are going all Andrew Jackson on the cartels.
“...You are a den of vipers and thieves. I have determined to rout you out, and by the Eternal, (bringing his fist down on the table) I will rout you out!”
The country of Columbia had big problems with the cartels a couple of decades ago. The people of Columbia finally told the government to take a no-holds-barred approach to dealing with them. Now Columbia is thriving.
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