{"id":94,"date":"2014-01-11T15:46:38","date_gmt":"2014-01-11T15:46:38","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/dev.litci.org\/india\/hi\/2014\/01\/11\/report-of-the-uprising-at-michoacan\/"},"modified":"2014-01-11T15:46:38","modified_gmt":"2014-01-11T15:46:38","slug":"report-of-the-uprising-at-michoacan","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/newwavesouthasia.com\/hi\/2014\/01\/11\/report-of-the-uprising-at-michoacan\/","title":{"rendered":"Report of the uprising at Michoacan"},"content":{"rendered":"

– GOS, Mexico
\n[Originally posted in : http:\/\/litci.org\/en\/index.php?option=com_content&view=article&id=2393:the-towns-of-michoacan-are-fighting-back&catid=40:mexico%5D<\/a><\/p>\n

Sandino used to say, \u201cliberty isn\u2019t gained (conquered) with flowers, but with bullets\u2026\u201d, and that is what the people of Tierra Caliente in Michoac\u00e1n decided to do after years of bearing with organized crime.
\nThe leaders of the community guards have pointed to the state & federal government as accomplices to the gangs.
\nIt was no coincidence that when the military or the federal police were going to begin an operation, the cartel warned then that they would leave and return when the military and police leaven the area.<\/p>\n

Gangs picked up with L\u00e1zaro
\n<\/em>
\nThe cartel gangs have operated in Michoac\u00e1n for many years, but during the government of L\u00e1zaro Cardenas (son of Cuauht\u00e9moc), the cartel consolidated this dominion. Afterwards, Leonel Godoy, another dark and mediocre perredista (nickname for PRD- Party of the Democratic Revolution[1]) like the first one, held the post and the situation transformed from bad to catastrophic. The gangs were overjoyed by this major complicity.
\nIn December of 2006, Calder\u00f3n[2], urged by legitimacy, chose Michoac\u00e1n as the starting pointto initiate what he considered to be his revindication: the so called War on Drugs. The famous war transformed into a tragedy with millions dead and missing. Meanwhile, the gangs shook\u00a0society throughout the state, like the \u201cPedro through his home\u201d[3].
\nAfter the disaster that was organized by C\u00e1rdenas, Godoy and Calder\u00f3n, Fausto Vallejo \u2013a hood of drugs-accused Cocoa, the sister of Calder\u00f3n \u2013where the situation went from theatrical to pathetic.<\/p>\n

No alternative was left
\n<\/em>
\nThe towns began to realize that they could not count on anything- neither the municipal police, statewide, federal or nor the military. Under the suspicion that all of the corporations are accomplices to the this brutality, they decided to form their own community guards , armed with whatever: shotguns, pistols, slingshots, axes, sticks, molotov bombs, machetes, etc.<\/p>\n

Women are part of the guards
\n<\/em>
\nOne of the most harmed sectors is that of women, apart from suffering the same as the rest of the inhabitants, they\u2019re objects of rape, torture, and murder by the cartel. It is because of that the guards that patrol the towns, at the checkpoints, and we also see them participating in the confrontations, are mainly young women, with slingshots ready at hand against the thugs.<\/p>\n

The state doesn\u2019t support the dual power
\n<\/em>
\nWhat is happening in Tierra Caliente is a situation double power. This is wherein the power of the state opposes the power of the people (town); who arm themselves, monitor and administer.
\nThat is why, when the guards of Tepalcatepec, La Ruana, Buenavista, etc., decided to attack the operations center of the cartels in Apatzing\u00e1n, the Pareo and Tanc\u00edtaro, the military and the federal police, installed checkpoints in order to detain the community guards. In Uruapan, the other large center of operations in which the community guards of the region were heading towards in order to expel the thugs, the military installed checkpoints in order to detain and disarm them.
\nWhat is certain is that the political class of all ruling parties do not support the situation wherein communities have organized themselves against the gangs. What is the least of their worries is the lives of the people. For these reasons, we must demand the state allow communities to have the right to arm themselves and protect their lives.
\nWe also must also demand that the community guards of Aquila be liberated!
\n___________________________
\n[1] The Party of the Democratic Revolution (Spanish: Partido de la Revoluci\u00f3n Democr\u00e1tica, PRD) is a social democratic political party in Mexico and one of two Mexican affiliates of the Socialist International. The PRD is a member of the Broad Progressive Front alliance.
\n[2] Felipe de Jes\u00fas Calder\u00f3n Hinojosa is a Mexican politician who served as President of Mexico from December 1, 2006 to November 30, 2012. He is a member of the Partido Acci\u00f3n Nacional (PAN), one of the three major Mexican political parties
\n[3] A Mexican saying: It commonly is interpreted to means someone act like they are in their own home. In this case it refers to the cartel treating M\u00e9xico like its own backyard.<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"

– GOS, Mexico [Originally posted in : http:\/\/litci.org\/en\/index.php?option=com_content&view=article&id=2393:the-towns-of-michoacan-are-fighting-back&catid=40:mexico%5D Sandino used to say, \u201cliberty isn\u2019t gained…<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":1,"featured_media":0,"comment_status":"open","ping_status":"open","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":""},"categories":[3],"tags":[],"class_list":["post-94","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","hentry","category-reports-and-general-articles"],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/newwavesouthasia.com\/hi\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/94","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/newwavesouthasia.com\/hi\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/newwavesouthasia.com\/hi\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/newwavesouthasia.com\/hi\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/users\/1"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/newwavesouthasia.com\/hi\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=94"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"https:\/\/newwavesouthasia.com\/hi\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/94\/revisions"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/newwavesouthasia.com\/hi\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=94"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/newwavesouthasia.com\/hi\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=94"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/newwavesouthasia.com\/hi\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=94"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}