New Self-Defense Groups Emerge in Rural Municipalities Near Acapulco Ezequiel Flores Contreras - Proceso
go to original February 25, 2013

COYUCA DE BENÍTEZ, Guerrero - Residents of the rural municipalities of Acapulco and Coyuca de Benitez formed this morning a self-defense group to deal directly with crime in this part the Costa Grande [Great Coast] region dominated by narco and paramilitary groups.

Today a meeting was held at the headquarters of the organization called the Union Union of Peoples, in the community of La Brasilia, where a woman, her face covered with a bandana, read out a manifesto that states the following: "[We are] instituting the Community system of security and justice, and citizen self-defense mechanism of our villages and access roads to declare, as of today, crime-free zones."

For his part, Carlos Garcia, the advisor from the organization that promotes the creation of self-defense groups in the region of the Costa Grande,  said that the purpose of this movement is to ensure that communities are recognized as the fourth level in the structure government.

In his speech, he recalled that the municipality of Coyuca de Benitez has extensive background insurgents and currently the hills of this area are controlled by narcotics traffickers and paramilitary groups that have the population under their control, given the government's indolence.

Therefore, he announced that this group will soon begin operating in at least 20 communities of Acapulco and Coyuca de Benitez in order to fight crime.

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