In central Mexico, it's all-out war in the streets for control of an entire state that's run and ter
In central Mexico, it's all-out war in the streets for control of an entire state that's run and terrorized by a drug cartel
The Knights Templar, a quasi-religious drug syndicate prone to beheading its enemies, terrorizes an entire state in Mexico, where the government has sent thousands of troops. But enraged villagers are taking law into their own hands, saying police and soldiers are on the take.
By Deborah Hastings / NEW YORK DAILY NEWS
Sunday, September 22, 2013, 2:00 AM
In the roiling Mexican state of Michoacan, where much of the nation’s illicit and million-dollar meth trade is based, all-out war is raging in broad daylight.
Outlaws from the exceptionally nasty and cult-like cartel Knights Templar launch blazing gunfights in city streets against thousands of federal troops dispatched by President Enrique Pena Nieto, making the humble state one of the most dangerous in Mexico.
No one knows how many villagers and soldiers have been killed, but on any given weekend of late, local media have reported numbers as high as 50 in a single town.
Among the dead are high-profile politicians and military leaders: state legislator Osbaldo Esquivel Lucatero was hacked to death on the side of a road last week as he gave an interview to a journalist in the lawless territory; Navy Vice Adm. Carlos Miguel Salazar, one of the country's highest-ranking naval officers, was shot to death in a recent ambush that also killed his bodyguard.
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