US Woman in Jail for Being Vigilante Becomes Another Black Eye for Mexico Bill Vourvoulias - Fox News Latino
go to original February 27, 2015

This 2009 file family photo provided by Grisel Rodriguez shows Nestora Salgado, who has been detained since she was arrested Aug. 21, 2013 in the state of Guerrero, south of Mexico City, where she had been leading a vigilante group targeting police corruption and drug cartel violence. (Associated Press/Grisel Rodriguez)

Nestora Salgado is a Mexican-born woman who arrived in the U.S. at age 20, settled in the placid suburban town of Renton, in Washington State, and eventually got her American citizenship.

Then, one day six or seven years ago, she decided to return to her native Olinalá, a mountainous town in the troubled Mexican state of Guerrero, and she ended up becoming part of a movement to establish a vigilante-style community police force – something allowed under Mexican law – and help fight crime and corruption in her home country.

That’s where her troubles started, worsening quickly, to the point that the woman is now facing what some press accounts are describing as a thousand-year prison sentence.

In a case that could end up in Mexico’s Supreme Court, Salgado was arrested in August 2013 on charges of kidnapping dozens of people. She claims all she was doing was fighting crime and that the charges against her are nothing but a political vendetta.

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