Vida LatinaMexico City, Aug 19 (EFE). — More than 100 women in the southern Mexican town of Xaltianguis have taken up arms to protect their community from organized crime groups, a local selfdefense force official said Monday.
The women signed up over the past four days with the Union of Peoples and Organizations of Guerrero State, or UPOEG, Xaltianguis community self defense force commander Miguel Angel Jimenez told reporters.
“We have an average of nine groups” of community police, with each one made up of 12 women who will work in the daytime in the neighborhoods of Xaltianguis, located about 50 kilometers (31 miles) from the resort city of Acapulco, Jimenez said.
The women will be trained in the use of firearms and carry the same weapons as men, Jimenez said.
The vigilante group has only about 80 firearms and the weapons are rotated among members, Jimenez said.
“I trust that the people, once they know that the women are participating,” will provide more weapons, Jimenez said.
Women were among the biggest supporters when the community selfdefense forces were being formed, telling men that “either you join or I join,” Jimenez said.
“Women are brave and we are capable of defending our town,” Silvia Hipolito, a mother of two who joined the selfdefense group, said.
The women will learn how to use firearms and work schedules that allow them to continue taking care of their homes, Hipolito said.
UPOEG, whose members are armed and wear hoods, was created in January in Guerrero state’s Costa Chica region.
The selfdefense group controls access to communities and polices them to fight crime blamed on drug traffickers and other organized crime groups.
Vigilante groups have appeared in recent months in several Mexican states, with the largest number being reported in Guerrero and the western state of Michoacan.
http://www.vidalatinasd.com/news/2013/aug/19/over-100-women-take-up-arms-in-mexico-to-defend/
“Over 100 women take up arms in Mexico to defend community”
Wow! So I guess that means we Americans are forced to take in the rest of the Mexicans who are cowardly fleeing across the border. Great deal! NOT!
Probably half of those fleeing Mexicans are the one’s who are illegal in their own country, so now they are coming over to our country because their own people are taking up arms against them.
It’s time we do the same until both of our countries push them back, surround them and then round the bastards up at the border and haul them off to some deserted island prison in the middle of the ocean.
Bikini Atoll may be available!
Good choice Rhum. High radiation levels and high shark populations will stop anybody from escape.
wow…..that’s a scary looking bunch of women even without the guns.
🙂 It just goes to show who has the cajones in that village!
And it ain’t the men.