The drug cartel violence that citizen self-defence leader Hipolito Mora gave his life fighting flared anew on Sunday, just one day after he was buried, as shootings and road blockades hit the city of Apatzingan, a regional hub in Mexico's hot lands.
Roads in and out of Apatzingan were blocked Sunday morning by trucks and buses pulled across the road by cartel gunmen, as the vehicles' owners stood by helplessly.
The victim's car was left dangling from a bridge as he lay dead inside, slumped onto the passenger's side seat. The theory is not so wild. The Jalisco cartel, from the neighbouring state of the same name, has been fighting a yearslong offensive to enter Michoacan. The roadblocks Sunday might have been because the Viagras gang feared such an attack.
Residents recounted cowering behind the brick walls of their homes as bullets whizzed through the night. That is what Hipolito Mora, one of the last leaders of Mexico's anti-gang citizens' movement, died fighting. He was buried Saturday alongside two of his faithful followers who were killed with him Thursday. Along him died practically any hope of reviving an armed civilian resistance to drug cartels.
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