Mexico’s traditional and Indigenous community police forces are coming under increasingly deadly fire from drug cartels. The chief prosecutor in the western state of Michoacan confirmed Monday that assailants shot to death seven members of the community police force in the town of Coahuayana (koh-why-YAH-nah) over the weekend.
FILE - Communal police forest officers walk on seized pine logs they found hidden in the brush along the road while on patrol, on the outskirts of the Indigenous township of Cheran, Michoacan state, Mexico , Jan. 20, 2022. TANGAMANDAPIO, Mexico — Mexico ’s traditional and Indigenous community police forces are coming under increasingly deadly fire from drug cartels , authorities said Monday.
But while they enjoy the trust of their fellow townspeople, the community guards can’t match the firepower of the cartels that want their land.“This all involves the decision of the members of criminal groups to gain territory and carry out illegal activities, mainly drug smuggling,” he said. Those traditional officers are known as “Kuárichas,” in Purepecha. In Indigenous towns, such forces have legal status to handle minor offenses.
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