Municipalities in Morelos Establish Their Own Autodefensas
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Translated by Valor for Borderland Beat
The first six months of 2018 became the most violent so far for the Enrique Peña Nieto administration. From January to June of this year, there were 13,738 murders. This figure meant that, on average, 76.32 daily homicides were committed in the country, according to the data of the Secretariado Ejecutivo del Sistema Nacional de Seguridad Pública (SESNSP) (Executive Secretariat of the National Public Security) with a cutoff date of June 2018.
Fed up with this type of violence, kidnappings, extortion from organized crime, and the lack of response from authorities, residents of Tlalnepantla, Yautepec and Atlatlahucan decided to form their own autodefensas.
Mexico City, July 20, 2018— Residents of Tlalnepantla, Yautepec and Atlatlahucan, Morelos announced the creation of autodefensas in order to confront violence, kidnappings, and extortion from organized crime.
“Many (criminal) cells arrived to charge quotas and to kidnap,” a member of this community police that maintains a checkpoint at the entrance to the municipality of Tlalnepantla told EFE.
Fed up with this type of attack and the lack of response from the authorities, the Morelensesdecided to form a community police, he explained.
In this municipality of Morelos, most of the population is dedicated to the sowing and cultivation of nopal (cactus), avocado, and peach.
“The police and the municipal mayor are already on their side (of the criminals). In fact, we no longer believe in them and we decided amongst ourselves to unite, to represent ourselves and to support each other,” he added.
The group was created after criminals of Colombian origin were arrested a month ago by villagers who accused them of extorting storekeepers in this region of central Mexico, he said.
Regularly, a man or a woman would appear at their businesses on board a motorcycle to request a quota from them, according to testimonies from the villagers.
“They told us they were charging money and threatening people. We realized this because people began to inform us and that is why we do this,” said the interviewee.
To achieve the arrest, the same villagers created barricades and placed checkpoints at the main entrances of the villages.
“We decided to get together in the town to get ahead, we came to look after [the village] (in turns) and we are armed for any situation that arises,” he said.
In addition to this “community police” in Morelos, the so-called autodefensas exist in the state of Michoacán and Guerrero, where they were born as a result of the threat of organized crime.
In Michoacán, they emerged in 2013 to defend themselves against the Caballeros Templarios Cartel, a spin-off from the Familia Michoacana, that dedicated itself mainly to the production and trafficking of drugs, but also kidnapping and extortion.
Although since 2011, there were already some armed communities in Cherán, Michoacán.
The emergence of autodefensas is not unique to that region. In Guerrero, they were born in the 70s and new groups emerged since 2013 due to the increase in violence.
Meanwhile in the Mezquital Valley (Hidalgo), they exist since 2008, and in villages that sympathize with the Zapatista Army of National Liberation (EZLN) in Chiapas, since 1994.
The First Six Months, The Most Violent
The first six months of 2018 became the most violent so far for the Enrique Peña Nieto administration. From January to June of this year, there were 13,738 murders. This figure meant that, on average, 76.32 homicides were committed daily in the country, according to the data.
Last June, there were 2,294 investigation cases for this type of crime.
During the first six months of 2017, 11,940 investigation cases were registered for homicides in the country, which meant an average of 66.3 per day. Last year closed with a total of 24,893 intentional homicides.
From January to June 2016, 9,298 intentional homicides were committed, an average of 51.6 a day. That year closed with 20,547 homicides.
During the first six months of 2015, 8,088 homicides were committed, on average: 44.9 per day. The year closed with 16,909 homicides.
Source: Sin Embargo
Source: http://www.borderlandbeat.com/2018/07/municipalities-in-morelos-establish.html
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