This community defense team was responsible for freeing the town of Peribán from the control of the Knights Templar cartel over a week ago.
Critiques and speculations regarding the self-defense movement have been leveled from left and right, yet absent is an appreciation for the events in situ.
The activist and theater director Juan Francisco Kuykendall, who suffered a fractured skull during the protests against Peña Nieto’s inauguration, died.
The self-defense phenomenon in Michoacán has great momentum, every day there are more people who decide to expel the criminals from their regions.
"Today it starts with the gas station and then come the shopping malls. It’s a process of annihilation of the peoples."