Current Events > Real life Birds of Prey: Female masked vigilantes take fight to Drug Cartels.

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The Michoacan area of Mexico has gotten so lawless, a band of female vigilantes are taking it upon themselves to protect their friends and family.The state, which is the worlds largest supplier of avocados and limes, has recently been overrun by the violent Jalisco drug cartel that hail from the neighboring state and so the women are fighting back, according to The Associated Press.

The women carry assault rifles and post roadblocks, often while pregnant or carrying small children with them, to combat the growing homicide levels, which have skyrocketed since 2013.

The majority of the women have lost family members to the cartel, like Blanco Nava who told the AP her son Freddy Barrios, a 29-year old lime picker, was kidnapped by presumed Jalisco cartel gunmen in pickup trucks; she has never heard from him since.

Another woman claimed her 14-year-old daughter was kidnapped and hasnt been seen since, saying We are going to defend those we have left, the children we have left, with our lives. We women are tired of seeing our children, our families disappear. They take our sons, they take our daughters, our relatives, our husbands.

It is left to the women to fight as most men are being carted away to work for the cartels (willingly or not).
Armed women who go by the nicknames La Chola, left, and La Guera, and who say they are members of a female-led self-defense group who fight off drug gangs, seen driving with firearms on January 14, 2021.

As soon as they see a man who can carry a gun, they take him away, woman told the AP. They disappear. We dont know if they have them (as recruits) or if they already killed them.

The women vigilantes also made a homemade tank, a heavy-duty pickup truck with steel plate armor welded on it, the AP reports, while women in other towns have dug trenches across roadways leading into neighboring Jalisco state, to keep the attackers out.

Children play on sandbags at a checkpoint set up by their mothers, who are part of the female-led defense group in Mexico

Alberto Garca, refused to join the cartels and had to flee. His family members were not so lucky.
They killed one of my brothers, too, said Garcia. They hacked him to pieces, and my sister-in-law, who was eight months pregnant.

The vigilantes say they have to resort to these tactics as the government and police fail to do so.
A masked woman who said she was displaced from her community by criminal groups seen on January 13, 2021.

Sergio Garcia, a male member of El Terrero vigilante group, says his 15-year-old brother was kidnapped and killed by Jalisco. Now, he wants justice that police have never given him. We are here for a reason, to get justice by hook or by crook, because if we dont do it, nobody else will, Garcia said.

Full Article: https://nypost.com/2021/01/16/mexicos-female-vigilantes-take-lead-in-fighting-drug-cartels/



Jesus, it sounds like they live in hell.

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Just a reminder that when you spend all your money at those fancy mexican resorts, that money is going to these shit cartels that rape, torture and murder their people.

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See, they need to make a spaghetti western on this premise.

Hill of Avocados

Avocado Gang

Once You See Avocado, You Die

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This is both badass as hell but also really sad

I wish them victory in battle

Murica just around the corner.

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Good on them

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Jesus, Mexico is such a fucking shit hole.

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This is depressing because it's not like the Cartel is going to go "Shit maybe we should take it easy with them since they're obviously hurting"

Instead they'll just double down and want to murder everyone in the town. This shit is sad and is crazy to think it's happening so close to us.

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NoMeLx22x posted...

This is depressing because it's not like the Cartel is going to go "Shit maybe we should take it easy with them since they're obviously hurting"

Instead they'll just double down and want to murder everyone in the town. This shit is sad and is crazy to think it's happening so close to us.

They have wiped out whole towns before the whole damn town, everyone.
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The cartels need to be destroyed.

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Is the Mexican president still going through with the "hugs not bullets" strategy? Because if thats the case I don't see that working. And its our fault the country is a shithole, even without the illegal drugs, the cartels still have access to illegal guns and trafficked women. Americans love both of those

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Chicken posted...

Just a reminder that when you spend all your money at those fancy mexican resorts, that money is going to these shit cartels that rape, torture and murder their people.

Right, but chips and guac though.

Sheiky-Baby posted...

See, they need to make a spaghetti western on this premise.

Hill of Avocados

Avocado Gang

Once You See Avocado, You Die

A Fistful Of Avocados
For A Few Avocados More
The Good, The Bad, And The Avocado

Avocado
Adis Avocado
The Return Of Avocado

Ill see myself out...


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I can't wait for the movie to come out in 10 years.

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From the amount of pics and videos of the aftermath of people "taking it to the cartel", this is going to end very poorly for all those who are opposing them.

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Mexico is friggin' wild and we rarely hear about it.

Like, it's nuts. I don't think any country has as diverse of bordering countries than the US

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Flauros posted...

From the amount of pics and videos of the aftermath of people "taking it to the cartel", this is going to end very poorly for all those who are opposing them.

What other options do they have? It's either wait for them to kill you , or fight back and wait for them to kill you. At least they'll hopefully take a couple out before the inevitable happens.

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Chicken posted...

Just a reminder that when you spend all your money at those fancy mexican resorts, that money is going to these shit cartels that rape, torture and murder their people.

I thought you were gonna say when you spend all your money on drugs, instead of at a resort.

its drugs what funds the cartels

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Zikten posted...

This is both badass as hell but also really sad

I wish them victory in battle