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Weekly Report - 13 February 2014 (WR-14-06)
MEXICO: Joint show of force in Apatzingán
The ‘self-defence’ groups marched victoriously into the town of Apatzingán at the weekend. Until recently Apatzingán was the stronghold of the drug-trafficking organisation Los Caballeros Templarios (LCT) in the Tierra Caliente region of the western state of Michoacán. One of the two most prominent leaders of the ‘self-defence’ groups, Estanislao Beltrán, said that the vigilantes had now “recovered” 25% of the state’s 113 municipalities.
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