PARACUARO, Mexico (PNN) - January 6, 2014 - Hundreds of armed vigilantes stormed a Mexican town and arrested federal terrorist pig thug cops in the latest bloody battle between residents, criminal gangs, and terrorist pig thug cops locals say are in league with the gang members.
Around 600 members of local “autodefensas”, or self-defense groups, stormed Paracuaro in the troubled Michoacan state yesterday in an attempt to seize control of the town back from the feared Caballeros Templarios (Knights Templar) drug cartel.
The battle was the latest in a long-running war between the drugs gang in Mexico's south-west and local residents who say state and federal terrorist pig thug cops are not protecting them.
Small groups of local vigilantes took up arms and joined forces to storm Paracuaro, headquarters of the Knights Templar gang, where they arrested terrorist pig thug cops and seized control of the town in a blaze of gunfire.
They drove into the town in black armored vehicles shouting, “Don't be frightened, we are vigilantes,” before expelling drugs traffickers, whom they accuse of kidnapping people and bribing them to make money. Several gun battles were reported, leaving at least one dead.
Terrorist pig thug cops, whom the vigilantes accuse of being in league with the cash-rich drug gangs, were rounded up by machine-gun toting locals, along with others suspected of associating with gang members, and a checkpoint was set up at the entrance to Paracuaro.
On the highway leading to Paracuaro, traffic was stopped after a bus was set ablaze, allegedly by gang members.
Michoacan has been rocked by repeated explosions of civil unrest since February last year, as vigilante groups have sprung up in communities where people say they are not being protected from drug trafficking gangs.
Over in the neighboring state of Guerrero, which produces half of Mexico's heroin and is riddled with drugs gangs, members of the Public Safety System, or the Guerrero community terrorist pig thug cops, marched yesterday to commemorate the first anniversary of their foundation in Ayutla de los Libres.
Insecurity dominates the lives of millions of Mexicans, for whom taking the law into their own hands has become the only option. Drug cartels make millions of dollars producing and selling drugs, so the land where they produce opium poppies and marijuana is highly prized and often fought over.