Near the ending of the January of this year Mexico's government legalized vigilante groups and integrated them into their police forces to help fight off drug cartels. The vigilantes or self defense groups have quickly mobilized since the government gave the okay. On the 8th hundreds of vigilantes, with the support of government troops and armored trucks occupied Apatzingan a city in the Mexican State of Michoacan. They have set up road blocks and have searched houses around the block looking for members and leaders of the drug cartel known as the Knights Templar. The government has stated that the self deference forces are in charge of the operations going on in Apatzingan. The vigilantes have already made some arrests in their crusade to get rid of the Knights Templar cartel.
If the vigilantes prove to be effective in the fight against the drug cartels, it will be interesting if other states in Mexico will legalize the formation of vigilante groups to fight the problem that has plagued the country in the recent years.
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http://www.bbc.co.uk/news/world-latin-america-26103464
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