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...tried to force his way into the military man's Mexico City home. "Of course he did the right thing," wrote Felipe Alcocer in one on-line forum on the incident. "I wish everyone would act in the same way and get rid of this anti-social scum...
...second shadowy group, called the Popular Anti-Drugs Army, materialized among farming towns in the southern state of Guerrero in November. Displaying blankets with written messages on bridges and buildings, the group claims to be made up of family men who have come to together to force drug dealers off the street. "We invite the people to join our struggle and defend our children who are the future of Mexico," it said on one of the blankets. Unlike the Juarez group, the Guerrero "Army" has been linked to several killings, including the decapitation of an alleged drug dealer in December...
...There are certainly some unfortunate precedents: Self-proclaimed anti-gang vigilantes became a key part of the civil war in Colombia, where they morphed into paramilitary armies with thousands of members. These groups fought leftist guerrillas and allied with the government to bring down major drug traffickers such as the notorious Pablo Escobar. Many of the paramilitary leaders later confessed they had funded their own activities by dealing drugs, but claimed they virtually stopped anti-social crime in areas under their control. Gustavo Duncan, who authored a book on the Colombian paramilitaries, says similar organizations could emerge in Mexico amid...
...There’s a wave of anti-elitist populism sweeping the country as you read this. As Robert Reich, former U.S. labor secretary, puts it, “typical Americans are hurting very badly right now. They resent people who appear to be living high off a system dominated by insiders with the right connections.” Considering the repeated labeling of the money allocated for the National Endowment for the Arts in the stimulus bill “pork barrel spending,” it’s a real fear that the people...
...that it has cornered the LTTE in a shrinking patch of territory around Mullativu on the northeastern coast. With this attack - using a do-it-yourself plane and a couple of bombs - the whole city was plunged into darkness (the power was cut) and fear, as tracer bullets and anti-aircraft fire punctured the sky. With two planes down, this might be the last sortie from the Tamil Eelam Air Force; but it may be the beginning of a new phase of guerrilla warfare in Colombo...