Mexican Community Uses Barricades to Drive Out Organized Crime and Political Parties http://upsidedownworld.org/main/mexico-archives-79/3065-mexican-community-uses-barricades-to-drive-out-organized-crime-and-political-parties

Armed with machetes, sticks, and farm tools, residents of Cherán, Michoacan, covered their faces with bandanas and set up barricades around their community on April 15. It is a scene reminiscent of Oaxaca in 2006, except this time, the barricades aren't meant to keep out paramilitary death squads; they keep out organized crime.

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