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In Mexico, Self Defense Groups Battle a Cartel

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09.10.2013 at 09:22am

In Mexico, Self Defense Groups Battle a Cartel by Stephanie McCrummen, Washington Post.

An audacious band of citizen militias battling a brutal drug cartel in the hills of central Mexico is becoming increasingly well-armed and coordinated in an attempt to end years of violence, extortion and humiliation.

What began as a few scattered self-defense groups has spread in recent months to dozens of towns across Michoacan, a volatile state gripped by the cultlike Knights Templar, a drug gang known for taxing locals on everything from cows to tortillas and executing those who do not comply…

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