The U.S. Embassy in Mexico City does not assume responsibility for the professional ability or integrity of the persons or firms appearing in this report. He calls them “a team that comes to destroy.”“They are ready to kill or die for whatever you give them,” said Alanis.And as the vigilantes grow harder to distinguish from cartels, the cartels also are growing bolder.In the Michoacan town of Zamora, the Jalisco New Generation drug cartel paraded through town in May in a convoy of at least two dozen pickups and SUVs — all proudly bearing the cartel’s initials “CJNG” on their doors and sides.With soldiers standing by as towns are taken over, the conflicts in some areas are becoming almost medieval. According to a recent DEA report, the two active groups casually cooperate with the Jalisco New Generation Cartel and the Los Zetas cartel. Police and troops guarding Xaltianguis did nothing. So I think a month of crisis is coming.”The Canadian-owned gold mines that dot the mountains have historically been shaken down for protection payments by gangs. Guerrero is one of Mexico's most violent states, where drug gangs fight for control of trafficking routes to the Pacific and other parts of the country. Geronimo — who won’t give his real name for fear of reprisals — explained why there is such heavy fighting for such small, poor towns.“There’s a crisis now in the mountains and the criminal gangs aren’t blockheads,” he said. Nor is Alanis loath to take on soldiers.“One time the army came and fired tear gas at women, and we didn’t allow that,” Alanis recalled.López Obrador is betting his security strategy on the newly created National Guard, a sort of militarized police force that is expected to be deployed in Guerrero in about a month. more recommended stories . The Los Ardillos have been linked to dozens of deaths in recent months, including many indigenous people, according to local media.President Andrés Manuel López Obrador has opted for a non-confrontational approach to the cartels, focusing, instead, on tackling inequality central to his efforts under a policy dubbed "abrazos, no balazos" - hugs not bullets.But this policy has come in for criticism after a number of high-profile attacks, including an ambush in which nine members of a Mormon community were killed. “… with everything that is coming to light, one can say Mexico was a narco state because the government had been taken over.”José Antonio Yépez Ortiz, head of the Santa Rosa de Lima Cartel and better known as “El Marro,” was arrested early Sunday.Cartel members didn’t put up significant resistance, although they did fire shots. A man authorities say was the leader of the Los Rojos criminal organization and who has been linked to the case of 43 students kidnapped in 2014 has been sentenced to 20 years in prison on organized crime charges.Santiago “El Carrete” Mazarí Hernández, who was apprehended in August 2019 on organized crime and kidnapping charges, operated in Morelos and Guerrero, where at one point he gave orders to 15 of Morelos’ most wanted criminals. Driving the back roads of Guerrero these days means passing dozens of roadblocks manned by men in civilian clothes with assault rifles.“Comandante Geronimo” stood by one such bullet-riddled barricade made of sandbags. A heavily armed vigilante force took over the town in the Mexican state of Guerrero last month by driving out a rival band, blowing up a car with gas cylinders and cutting up the body of one of two fallen foes. He says people won’t take it much longer.“The National Guard is what we most need up here, and have been waiting for, but if it doesn’t work, we are going to take other measures,” Barragan said, adding a lot of his neighbors are thinking of getting guns.Members of a FUPCEG vigilante group patrol in Xaltianguis, Guerrero state, Mexico, Wednesday, May 29, 2019.

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