Drug Cartel Launches Rare Publicity Push; Residents Complain About Federal Police Associated Press
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In this July 29, 2013 file photo, masked members of the Purepecha Indian community guard unit, from the town of Los Reyes in Michoacan, Mexico, attend a press conference in Mexico City. (Gabriela Sanchez/Associated Press)

MEXICO CITY — A group of farmers and businessmen from the western Mexico state of Michoacan demanded Wednesday that the government stop sending thousands of federal police to fight a local drug cartel.

While the group denied any links to the Knights Templar cartel, its news conference in Mexico City coincided with a rare public relations push by the gang, whose leader raged against federal police in a videotaped statement posted over the weekend on social media sites.

Both the cartel and the group, which calls itself Peace with Dignity for Michoacan, also railed against “self-defense” groups set up by residents in several Michoacan towns to resist Knights Templar gunmen.

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