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Vigilante

Vigilantes at a checkpoint near Apatzingan in Mexico's troubled state of Michoacan.

Mexican citizens take the drug war into their own hands

January 16, 2014Conflict & Justice

The Mexican government is floundering over how to handle the security vacuum in the state of Michoacan. Young, armed citizens are fighting and beating a powerful drug cartel, but the government isn’t sure how to handle their new power.

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