Puebla Governor Miguel Barbosa, seen here five days after the Jolalpan clash at a ceremony to destroy decommissioned military arms to prevent them falling into criminal hands, calls self-defense groups’ efforts ‘unacceptable.’ Miguel Barbosa/Twitter “I don’t know because we’re new ,” he said. “The truth is there haven’t been any certified police since 2012,” said Bernabé Cortez. In Jolalpan, where last week’s clash occurred, there have been no certified officers for 10 years, according to a local councilor. Milenio reported that the FTP has taken control of security in 27 Mixteca region municipalities, most of which don’t have certified municipal police. “The group formed to defend ourselves because we were fed up with so many threats and deaths,” Arturo, a 75-year-old campesino-cum-vigilante, told Milenio.
In 10 years, its membership has grown to almost 2,500 autodefensas, including elderly men and women. Since then, the self-defense force has been focused on keeping the Familia Michoacana at bay. The deadly clash between the self-defense group and cartel members happened in the municipality of Jolalpan, Puebla, which is near Puebla’s border with Guerrero and Morelos. The FTP was successful in weakening Los Rojos, but the Familia Michoacana subsequently moved in and started making threats against residents. Sixteen other people were wounded, one report said.Īccording to a Milenio newspaper report, the FTP formed 10 years ago when Los Rojos was the dominant criminal gang in the Mixteca region of Puebla, which borders Oaxaca, Guerrero and Morelos and is part of a drug trafficking route. Among the six dead was FTP leader Eloy Merino Mendoza. The clash with presumed members of the Familia Michoacana crime group occurred July 20 in Jolalpan, a Mixteca region municipality that borders both Guerrero and Morelos.
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