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Weekly Report - 13 March 2014 (WR-14-10)

MEXICO: Self-defence groups become a hindrance in Michoacán

Following President Enrique Peña Nieto’s unprecedented decision to order a federal intervention in Michoacán to address the state’s security crisis, the federal security forces appear finally to be gaining the upper hand in the fight against the criminality in the state. This should appease the so-called ‘self-defence groups’ of local armed vigilantes that sprang up in Michoacán last year in response to the local authorities’ inability to provide effective public security for their communities. However, after being legitimised by the federal government and given the chance to work along with the security forces to tackle insecurity, the self-defence groups are now starting to become part of the problem, not the solution.

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