"In Mexico, Self-defense Squads Battle Violence"

[Smaland]

"(AP Photo/Dario Lopez-Mills). In this photo taken Friday Jan. 18, 2013, masked and armed men sit in the back of a pick-up truck at the entrance to the town of Ayutla, Mexico."

Vigilantes patrol a dozen or more towns in rural Mexico, the unauthorized but often tolerated edge of a growing movement toward armed citizen self-defense squads across the country.

"The situation Mexico is experiencing, the crime, is what has given the communities the legitimacy to say, 'We will assume the tasks that the government has not been able to fulfill,'" said rights activist Roman Hernandez, whose group Tlachinollan has worked with the community forces.

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[Lemon Kush]

If the corrupt police that works with the drug cartels isn't doing anything about it then who else?

[Smaland]

If the corrupt police that works with the drug cartels isn't doing anything about it then who else?

I don't disapprove of what they're doing. Any nation's legal system can become so corrupt that vigilantism becomes the only option left.