Mexico Knights Templar 'leader' captured in Michoacan - Polidicks

[quote][quote][t]http://news.bbcimg.co.uk/media/images/72390000/jpg/_72390343_mexico_afp.jpg[/t] [I]Mexican troops have been patrolling streets of major towns in Michoacan[/I][/quote] Mexican security forces have arrested 38 members of the Knights Templar drug cartel, as part of an operation to restore order in Michoacan state. Jesus Vasquez Macias, 37, whom officials described as a leading figure in the gang, was among those detained. Hundreds of troops were deployed last week after violent scenes as groups of vigilantes clashed with gang members. The vigilantes accuse the government of not doing enough to protect locals from extortion and violence. Many members of the so-called self-defence groups are refusing to heed the government's call to disarm.[/quote] [URL="http://www.bbc.co.uk/news/world-latin-america-25808887"]BBC[/URL] Also at the same time in Michoacan... [B] Mexican vigilante groups refuse to lay down arms [/B][quote][t]http://www.trbimg.com/img-52dda48a/turbine/la-fg-wn-mexico-vigilante-groups-michoacan-201-001/600[/t] MEXICO CITY — A leader of the vigilante “self-defense” groups in the Mexican state of Michoacan said Monday that he was pleased with the progress that federal forces are making in establishing order in the troubled region. But he added that the groups are not ready to lay down their arms.On Sunday, federal authorities announced that they had apprehended one key leader of the Knights Templar drug cartel. But vigilante leader Hipolito Mora said Monday that the ragtag vigilante groups would not turn over their weapons until the government arrested more of them. “The government is doing its job well now, but we need to wait a little longer, so they can grab the most important cartel leaders,” he said in a radio interview. The newspaper Reforma reported Monday that authorities discovered the bodies of five people in a municipality called Susupuato. The victims, including a 1-month-old girl and a 2-year-old boy, had been shot. But it was unclear whether the deaths were linked to the struggle stemming from the cartel presence. The self-defense groups, which emerged early last year, hope to drive the Knights Templar out of Michoacan. The drug cartel runs an extensive extortion racket and had come to control a number of local governments in Michoacan, as well as much of the agricultural business in the region called the Tierra Caliente, or hot land. [/quote] [url=http://www.latimes.com/world/worldnow/la-fg-wn-mexico-vigilante-groups-michoacan-20140120,0,1988923.story?track=rss#axzz2qzsaJZo8]LA Times[/url]

Someone will take his place, and the process will start all over again. You can't just take out individual kingpins like this. You have to take the whole organization at the same time and systematically destroy it. Grabbing random higher-up members of organizations like this at random is useless.

I'm going to say it; the Mexican government needs to stop punishing vigilante groups. Yes, some are just rival gangs, and some later become rival gangs, but a majority of them are just honest Mexican people trying to protect themselves when the government will or can not. There has to be a more organized struggle against the cartels in Mexico though, it's not as simple as killing individual members.

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