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| The self-defense movement won't give in to the Mexican Army in Michoacán Photo By: Gustavo Aguado |
Nueva Italia, Michoacán—Despite the warnings from the PRI governor Fausto Vallejo, the self-defense movement took the municipalities of La Huacana and Zicuirán during the afternoon and Nueva Italia through the night.
The advancement of the self-defense movement goes against the grain of the statements by the governor Vallejo Figueroa, in the sense that “they will not go any further after the taking of Tancítaro, on November 19”
Residents of Zicuirán indicated that members of the Army open fired on a truck belonging to a self-defense group in which three women were injured, and apparently one of them identified as Leonor Sandoval Báez, 17, died in the hospital of La Huacana.
The attack occurred at 19:00 hours (7:00 p.m.) in a place known as La Galera, a few meters away from an outpost, when two trucks with Mexican soldiers arrested eight members of a self-defense group and threw them on the ground.
Immediately, a few thousand residents rushed to the site of the confrontation. In response, the soldiers opened fire on a truck carrying a group of women where three were injured.
After the assault, he soldiers escaped towards Churumuco.
During the afternoon, Community Police and self-defense groups from: Aguililla, Aquila, Coalcomán, Buenavista, Tepalcatepec and Tancítaro, along with residents from La Huacana, in the Tierra Caliente region, cried out: “Enough with organized crime!”
The dissenters wielded field tools and turned them into weapons: scythes, machetes, hoes, axes, .22 caliber rifles and 12 gauge shotguns.
Alfonso Mares, mayor of La Huacana, pronounced that the municipality will get rid of “these degenerates”.
During the night, the self-defense advancement continued with the taking of Nueva Italia.
Source: Proceso
Source: Proceso