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Mexico & Nafta - January 2014 (ISSN 1741-444X)
Plane crash puts Michoacán self-defence groups in the spotlight
With the south-western state of Michoacán a hotbed of ‘self-defence’ group activity, the recent crash-landing of a light aircraft carrying a prominent self-defence group leader on a Michoacán highway has focused renewed public attention on the nature of these self-defence or ‘community police’ organisations, which have sprung up spontaneously across the state in the past year. Both Mexican public opinion and the federal government are still struggling to decide whether these groups are a justified reaction by local communities to the dire security situation in Michoacán, or whether they amount to nothing more than local drug gangsters and other criminals trying to pass themselves off as vigilantes.
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