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Ayutla (Guerrero, Mexico)

Type: City

Name: Ayutla (Guerrero, Mexico)

Country: Mexico

Latitude: 16.9

Longitude: -99.220001

population: 9,897

First reported Apr 29 2013 - Updated Apr 30 2013 - 2 reports

Fringes: Stories from the Edge: The Warrior State

NEWS THE warrior state By Bernardo Loyola and Laura WoldenbergMilitia members in Cuautepec, Guerrero, where they gathered to take an oath to defend their communities against organized crime. Photos by Carlos Alvarez Montero.On January 5 in El Potrero, ... [Published Vice UK - Apr 30 2013]

Entities: Guerrero (Mexico), Ayutla (Guerrero, Mexico), Organized Crime, Mexican Drug Cartels

First reported Apr 15 2013 - Updated Apr 15 2013 - 1 reports

Guerrero: The Communal Police joins the fight for the defense of education

Photo @SIPAZ On 8 April, members of the Regional Coordination of Communal Authorities (CRAC) from the Tixtla municipality entered Chilpancingo following a march from their communities, to demand the release of the second commander of El Troncón, ... [Published SIPAZ Blog - Apr 15 2013]

Entities: Ayutla (Guerrero, Mexico), Education, Police

First reported Apr 15 2013 - Updated Apr 15 2013 - 1 reports

The Warrior State

Militia members in Cuautepec, Guerrero, where they gathered to take an oath to defend their communities against organized crime. Photos by Carlos Alvarez Montero.On January 5 in El Potrero, a small town in the Mexican state of Guerrero, a man named Eusebio ... [Published Vice Magazine US - Apr 15 2013]

Entities: Guerrero (Mexico), Ayutla (Guerrero, Mexico), Organized Crime, Mexican Drug Cartels

First reported Mar 29 2013 - Updated Mar 29 2013 - 1 reports

Ordinary Mexicans Fight Drug Cartels by Seizing Town

1,500 ordinary Mexicans fed up with the local government’s inaction in dealing with the drug cartels terrorizing the country have taken the law into their own hands , controlling the town of Tierra Colorado. The vigilante force was organized after ... [Published Breitbart Feed - Mar 29 2013]

Entities: Mexican Drug Cartels, Libres (Mexico), Ayutla (Guerrero, Mexico)

First reported Feb 21 2013 - Updated Feb 21 2013 - 1 reports

The Residents of Four States Opt For Civil Defense

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Entities: Guerrero (Mexico), Tixtla (Mexico), Self-Defense

First reported Feb 13 2013 - Updated Feb 13 2013 - 1 reports

Guerrero: CRAC-PC calls for a State Meeting on 17 February

Photo @SIPAZ The Regional Coordination of Communal Authorities-Communal Police (CRAC-PC) has called on “organizations and peoples who build alternative systems of security and justice, social organizations and fraternal politicians, progressive ... [Published SIPAZ Blog - Feb 13 2013]

Entities: Organized Crime, Ayutla (Guerrero, Mexico), Security, Organism, Self-Defense

First reported Feb 08 2013 - Updated Feb 08 2013 - 1 reports

Guerrero: Beginning of “popular trial” to judge 54 arrestees in Ayutla

Photo @Xinhua / Camilo Mónaco Communal authorities from four municipalities of the Costa Chica region who have now for more than three weeks taken up arms to directly confront organized crime have organized a “popular trial” to begin the judgment ... [Published SIPAZ Blog - Feb 08 2013]

Entities: Ayutla (Guerrero, Mexico), Organized Crime, Self-Defense, Human Rights, Campos

First reported Feb 05 2013 - Updated Feb 05 2013 - 1 reports

Can Vigilante Justice Save Mexico?

Borderland Beat Related story from Guerrero: Masked vigilantes shoot at and injure tourists, story follows first post Hooded residents of Ayutla de los Libres, in the Mexican southern state of Guerrero, stand guard at a checkpoint on Jan. ... [Published Borderland Beat - Feb 05 2013]

Entities: Ayutla (Guerrero, Mexico), Guerrero (Mexico), Mexico

First reported Jan 25 2013 - Updated Jan 25 2013 - 1 reports

Guerrero: Govenor Aguirre intervenes in situation of insecurity in Ayutla. Communal Police repeats that “it is not us”

Anniversary of the Communal Police, October 2011. Photo @SIPAZ According to information from the newspaper La Jornada de Guerrero, the meeting that took place between members of the Regional Coordination of Communal Authorities (CRAC) and governor ... [Published SIPAZ Blog - Jan 25 2013]

Entities: Ayutla (Guerrero, Mexico), Police, Organized Crime, Self-Defense

First reported Jan 16 2013 - Updated Jan 16 2013 - 1 reports

Guerrero: Self-defense against organized crime in 4 municipalities

In the early morning of 7 January, civilians set up checkpoints at the entrance and exit of Ayutla de los Libres, Costa Chica, following an extended exchange of gunfire. In a press-conference at the Casa de Justicia in El Paraíso, Arturo Campos ... [Published SIPAZ Blog - Jan 16 2013]

Entities: Ayutla (Guerrero, Mexico), Organized Crime, Self-Defense

Quotes

"On the main road into the Mexican town of Ayutla, about 75 miles southeast of Acapulco, about a dozen men cradling shotguns and rusted machetes stand guard on a street corner. Their faces are covered in black ski masks. The men are part of a network of self-defense brigades, formed in the southern state of Guerrero to combat the drug traffickers and organized crime gangs that terrorize residents." * Southern Mexico residents say they're sick and tired of living under the rule of Mexican drug cartels, so some are striking back in self-defense brigades...

Vigilantes Fighting Mexican Drug Cartels [Published The Young Turks - YouTube - Feb 03 2013]

More Content

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Guerrero: Release of 6 members of Communal Poli... [Published SIPAZ Blog - May 17 2013]
Fringes: Stories from the Edge: The Warrior State [Published Vice UK - Apr 30 2013]
Fringes: The Warrior State [Published Vice Magazine US - Apr 29 2013]
Guerrero: Teachers’ megamarch ends with the occ... [Published SIPAZ Blog - Apr 23 2013]
Guerrero: The Communal Police joins the fight f... [Published SIPAZ Blog - Apr 15 2013]
The Warrior State [Published Vice Magazine US - Apr 15 2013]
Ordinary Mexicans Fight Drug Cartels by Seizing... [Published Breitbart Feed - Mar 29 2013]
National: Thousands of persons participate in t... [Published SIPAZ Blog - Mar 26 2013]
Guerrero: CRAC-PC demystifies journalistic clai... [Published SIPAZ Blog - Mar 20 2013]
Guerrero: death-threats directed against Obtili... [Published SIPAZ Blog - Feb 26 2013]
Guerrero: Regional Coordination of Communal Aut... [Published SIPAZ Blog - Feb 26 2013]
Guerrero: Communal Police expresses itself in l... [Published SIPAZ Blog - Feb 26 2013]
Guerrero: Authorities linked to the UPOEG occup... [Published SIPAZ Blog - Feb 26 2013]
The Residents of Four States Opt For Civil Defense [Published Borderland Beat - Feb 21 2013]
Guerrero: CRAC-PC calls for a State Meeting on ... [Published SIPAZ Blog - Feb 13 2013]
Guerrero: Beginning of “popular trial” to judge... [Published SIPAZ Blog - Feb 08 2013]
Can Vigilante Justice Save Mexico? [Published Borderland Beat - Feb 05 2013]
Vigilantes Fighting Mexican Drug Cartels [Published The Young Turks - YouTube - Feb 03 2013]
Guerrero: Govenor Aguirre intervenes in situati... [Published SIPAZ Blog - Jan 25 2013]
Guerrero: Self-defense against organized crime ... [Published SIPAZ Blog - Jan 16 2013]
Guerrero: Celebration of the 17th anniversary o... [Published SIPAZ Blog - Nov 30 2012]

Blogs

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Guerrero: Release of 6 members of Communal Poli... [Published SIPAZ Blog - May 17 2013] Meeting in San Luis Acatlán, 17 February 2013. Photo @SIPAZ Members of the Regional Coordination of Communal Authorities (CRAC) were released after having paid bail of 62,000 pesos, as reports Vidulfo Rosales, defense counsel and representative ...
Guerrero: Teachers’ megamarch ends with the occ... [Published SIPAZ Blog - Apr 23 2013] Photo @Francisco Olvera On 18 April, thousands of members of the Popular Movement of Guerrero (MPG) and sympathizers from other states marched through the Sol Highway and subsequently took the state Congress to demand that the legislators hold ...
Guerrero: The Communal Police joins the fight f... [Published SIPAZ Blog - Apr 15 2013] Photo @SIPAZ On 8 April, members of the Regional Coordination of Communal Authorities (CRAC) from the Tixtla municipality entered Chilpancingo following a march from their communities, to demand the release of the second commander of El Troncón, ...
Ordinary Mexicans Fight Drug Cartels by Seizing... [Published Breitbart Feed - Mar 29 2013] 1,500 ordinary Mexicans fed up with the local government’s inaction in dealing with the drug cartels terrorizing the country have taken the law into their own hands , controlling the town of Tierra Colorado. The vigilante force was organized after ...
National: Thousands of persons participate in t... [Published SIPAZ Blog - Mar 26 2013] Photo @megafono.lunasexta.org Thousands participated in the March for Life organized by the Network of Autonomous Anticapitalist Resistance (RRAA) left from the Ángel de la Independencia toward the Zócalo of Mexico City on Wednesday 13 March, while ...

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Vigilantes Fighting Mexican Drug Cartels [Published The Young Turks - YouTube - Feb 03 2013]