Cher GUN CRIME
Rogelio Arellano / Correspondent La Voz de Michoacán
Cher, Mich., April 27, 2011 .- With barricades bags sand and masked men armed with rifles, pistols and machetes, remain blocked access to Cheran, while in the center of town, the residents are prepared to ensure the two killed in the town square. Voltage
live in the east point of the plateau where you are recording the confrontation between community by excessive logging of the forest.
Comuneros Cheran, Michoacan. declared "state of armed insurrection against the organized crime" , after the death of two residents of this town, who were killed on Wednesday at the hands of several armed men acting as escorts for another group of loggers. These
events triggered the closure of the main outputs and inputs of this population through roadblocks manned by armed, waiting for the Federal and State governments to send contingents of police to ensure the safety of this county.
To prevent the incursion "the enemy" , these barricades also serve as security filters through detailed review of private and commercial vehicles, while in the main square watched the two deceased identified as Pedro Juarez Urbina, Armando Hernandez Estrada, both about 45 years of age, who were declared "fellow died in the quest for freedom and justice ", said one of the commissioners to serve this media.
was stated that the escalation of violence started on 16 this month when five loggers Capacuaro community, municipality of Uruapan, were held by his incessant activity of looting. That day they burned two trucks and prevented them were rescued by an armed group, placing barricades in the streets of this town and even fired their weapons wounded a man shot in the face.
In response, residents of Capacuaro also proceeded to block roads, especially on the road Carapan-Playa Azul-slice Paracho, Uruapan and even proceeded to hold four people from Cher to proceed with the exchange of hostages, which occurred on Friday via the State Government and City of Uruapan.
that day the commitment was also to have police presence in Cheran, but that never happened last Tuesday morning, residents here staged a protest in the city of Morelia with the caveat that official indolence create this crisis new acts of violence. The latter
met yesterday with the killing of two villagers, who like other students went to that place but they were received dead by armed group guarding other strangers who were clearing trees, precisely the property "Burning Bridge" about five miles north of this town on the road to Carapan.
Other villagers of this place, who were armed, fired and in the middle of the fray rescued the bodies of their comrades "fallen" , while others requested the help of state police and shifted to the neighboring municipality of Nahuatzen close . "Neither the Attorney General, or those cops ignored us, they never" , a villager said the group supported by the committee liaison with the media. Given this
state of helplessness, by agreement of the community, through consensus in the four quarters, it was decided to organize to ensure the safety of people and placed barricades on the main outputs as well as many others within this area , all guarded by armed men from rifles to pistols, machetes and sticks.
According to members of the committee, it is a "armed insurgency against organized crime" to the indolence of the state and federal authorities. "There is anger, anger, fear, fear, anger, but mostly the feeling of humiliation by the authorities to decide which face our own ".
noted that "it is the responsibility of government bodies the consequences of renewed fighting by his lack of support. It was a long time we expect the help and today are the consequences of failing to send police. We are disappointed, but not trampled on again and wait for it to happen again, we decided to defend ".
Given this inability of the authorities of the three levels of government, they said, there have been other voices of support for civil society, but organized groups of migrants who live in the United States. "They -the - migrants may be able to do more than governments that organized crime respected civil society ".
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