Chivis Martínez for Borderland Beat
Autodefensas will not go into new communities but also refuse to disarm
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Autodefensas will not go into new communities but also refuse to disarm
Above: Jan. 13, 2014. Inside the house of Enrique Plancarte Solís in Nueva Italia, Michoacán. Solís is one of the most wanted Templarios leaders
Note: Proceso, Valor SRD and other autodefensas FB and twitter says this is Plancarte on the sofa, but the article says it is an autodefensa after taking Nueva Italia.....either way everyone in hot areas of Michoacán knows where CT are and live. In the disarming of NI people were shouting where they lived......autodefensas do not dress r behave as the person in the foto.
Exactly as printed in Proceso:
"Meanwhile, the same day the online edition of Time published a series of images of French photojournalist Jerome Sessini about drug violence in Michoacán. In one of them, Sessini captured one of the most wanted leaders of the criminal organization The Knights Templar, Enrique Plancarte Solis, The Kikin , sitting on a luxurious couch in the living room of his house in Nueva Italia, Michoacán, according to the caption of photo accompanying image, dated January 13. "
Executive secretary of the National Public Security System (NPSS), Alejandro Rubido Garcia, reported that elements of the Federal Police (PF) captured in the Michoacán town of Los Reyes Joaquín Negrete, The alleged operator of the Caballeros Templarios. A "leader" that no one knows about. Insisting they are searching for Templarios leaders to apprehend.
Mean while, the photo above appeared in Time Magazine, with one of the Templarios premier and most wanted ,
French photojournalist Jerome Sessini, captured the photo of Plancarte the living room of his home in Nueva Italia, on the day government forces rolled into Michoacán under the gise of looking for cartel leaders and restoring security.
Human Rights Commission is investigating the wounding and killing of 11 people by government forces, including an 11 year old girl.
Information sources: Time foto, Proceso and Por Valor Michoacán SDR
Below....Inhabitants and autodefensas of the liberated municipality of Buenavista, located 40 minutes from Apatzingán,confrontedandexpelledaconvoywithmorethan100elementsofthe Mexican army. Explaining they did not want them or need them "an 11 year old girl was killed, and partners of ours". and a little butt chewing in the process about the need to go after Templarios.
This is a different "war" with dozens of eyes and ears recording each word and action, one is not dependent on words alone.
Below....Inhabitants and autodefensas of the liberated municipality of Buenavista, located 40 minutes from Apatzingán,confrontedandexpelledaconvoywithmorethan100elementsofthe Mexican army. Explaining they did not want them or need them "an 11 year old girl was killed, and partners of ours". and a little butt chewing in the process about the need to go after Templarios.
This is a different "war" with dozens of eyes and ears recording each word and action, one is not dependent on words alone.
Autodefensas agree to not advance but refuse to disarm
After a meeting of representatives from more than 100 self-defense groups on Wednesday afternoon, the Citizen Council of Self-Defense decided not to disarm its members and not to leave the municipalities [they have already 'liberated'], but also not to go to new communities.
Estanislao Beltrán, spokesman for the self-defense groups, announced that the Council meeting was to inform community leaders of what had transpired [in their meeting] with Michoacán Governor Fausto Vallejo.
They also decided not to go to other municipalities, but to stay where they are now,
"because if we don't, organized crime will arrive, and it is going to shoot us," said Beltrán.
They will try not to patrol the communities armed, but they are not going to hand over their weapons either.
In order to "cleanse the state of Michoacán from The Knights Templar," they will try to coordinate with the Federal Police and the Army, Beltrán said.
The Council met from 3:30 PM until after 6:00 PM in the livestock pens of the Tepalcatepec Livestock Association. The Army was present nearby. (Beltran is in foto below with Dr. Mireles)
Source: Mexico Voices
Message from the General Council of the Michoacán Autodefensas
"We have 25,000 armed men, but in an emergency we can bring together 140 thousand and go to war if necessary."
The General Council of autodefensas and Michoacán community said that there are 25 thousand armed men in their ranks, but "the reality is that, in an emergency situation, in less than 15 minutes, we have an army of about 140 thousand to go to war if necessary".
In a statement that aired this Wednesday evening, the Council endorsed that it not lay down weapons and that it is time "that Michoacán realizes the power (s) that we have to face all these scourges of the Caballeros Templarios".
They said that less than one year of their appearance (the 24th February 2013), with the taking of Tepalcatepec and Buenavista Tomatlán)," we have been more effective in the fight against organized crime than the Government has been in a decade".
The self-defense forces Council launched a warning that the criminal group: "with its threats are not going to stop, nor will we stop. If you believe that with their narcomunicipales or State will we stop, you are very wrong”.
They insist that they will not give up weapons and much less will not disband, but clarifies: "the war is not with the Government, but with the Templarios or any group that wants to come to take us prisoners or enslave us.
THEY ARE READY TO DIE STANDING, NOT ON OUR KNEES.