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Weekly Report - 30 January 2014 (WR-14-04)

MEXICO: Vigilantes to be drafted into security organs

After much flip-flopping over the course of the last year, the federal government this week settled on assimilating the ‘self-defence’ groups in the beleaguered south-western state of Michoacán. The global media spotlight is on the vigilantes in Michoacán, as President Enrique Peña Nieto discovered during his appearance at the World Economic Forum (WEF) in Davos on 23 January. After a botched operation by federal forces earlier this month to disarm the vigilantes (who have refused to hand over their weapons) [WR-14-02], the government now plans to absorb them on a “temporary” basis into the ‘rural defence corps’. This scheme will face serious scrutiny in the months ahead as it will legalise groups who have been operating outside the rule of law.

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