| Self-Defense Forces Enter Knights Templar's Key Stronghold in Michoacan Agence France-Presse | |
| go to original February 9, 2014 |
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Vigilante groups in the troubled Mexican state of Michoacan have entered a stronghold of the Knights Templar drug cartel, occupying the main square. (BBC News)
MORELIA - Vigilante militias that have fought a drug cartel in western Mexico for a year entered on Saturday a city considered a key gang bastion and they are helping authorities police the town.
Fernando Cano, the Michoacan state deputy government secretary, told AFP that the self-defense forces entered Apatzingan and that "they will be in charge of security" along with federal police.
The civilians were unarmed and they were all members of new "rural defense" forces that were recently formed under the army's oversight to legalize the vigilante movement, he said.
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