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    All-Women Self-Defense Militia In Guerrero, Mexico Says They Are Capable Of Defending

    All-Women Self-Defense Militia In Guerrero, Mexico Says They Are Capable Of Defending Their Town Against Drug War Violence

    By Staff Reporter, Aug 19, 2013 05:29 PM EDT


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    More than 100 women from the town of Xaltianguis, about 30 miles from the resort of Acapulco in Mexico's southern state of Guerrero, have taken up arms against organized crime in their town forming all-women regiments in a local community self-defense group known as the Union of Organized Peoples of the State of Guerrero (UPOEG). On Sunday, the women put on their new citizen-police uniforms and gathered in their town's plaza, where they took an oath to defend their community. Miguel Ángel Jiménez Blanco, the commander of the community police in Xaltianguis, told Animal Politico that the women have undergone training on how to handle the 80 or so firearms which the self-defense patrols rotate among themselves.

    Jiménez Blanco said that the women had made the decision to join the UPOEG within the last four days. "We have an average of nine groups" of community police, he said, each one made up of 12 women who will go on patrol during the day in Xaltianguis. He added that the male members of the self-defense group will operate principally at night.

    Silvia Hipólito, one of the female members and a mother of two, said the all-women force, "We're strong and we're capable of defending our town."

    Many of the women joined after seeing sons, husbands, or fathers killed by gangs. Two major cartels, the Knights Templar and Jalisco New Generation, have been fighting over control of the region, and community self-defense groups have sprung up across Guerrero and other states like Michoacán, where villages have seen themselves ravaged by the cartels.
    Jiménez Blanco told Milenio that when the citizen police originally formed in their town, many of the men took more than three months to rally up the courage to join. And when they did, it was largely after being spurred into action by their wives. "'Either you join or I will,'" the commander said the women told their husbands, contrasting the men's reluctance with the four days it took the women to organize.

    It isn't always just fighting between rival groups, either. In June, one member of a citizen police group in Michoacán described in a widely disseminated video how cartel members had begun to abduct wives and daughters of even the most influential townspeople, returning them only when they were pregnant. But the Mexican government looks dimly upon the community groups, and has been trying to crack down on them, sending in the military to break them up and confiscate their weapons.

    One of those groups marched in protest of the move in the highway outside of Xaltianguis this past weekend.

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    good luck girls; but you aint going to make it

    Obama and Holder have armed the shit out of the Drug Cartels and you girls are in trouble because of their actions

    I'll say a prayer for you... but its looking bad
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    These Women are Patriots trying to defend their homes & country and they should be commended, admired and supported, Women that are of this caliber are the stuff that civilized nations are built from. Mexico needs more patriots willing to fight for their country instead of a jumping a border fence to leave others to do the hard work and help repair a country. Hopefully this will spread.
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    Over 100 Mexican Women To Take Up Arms to Defend Community from Organized Crime

    Mexican women have had enough of organized crime in their communities and they are doing something about it.

    Over 100 women have signed up to become members of a local self-defense force, but they won’t be “lone rangers.”

    These women will be trained on the proper use of firearms and will be guarding the southern Mexican town of Xaltianguis in shifts of twelve people.

    The Latin American Herald Tribune reports:

    The women signed up over the past four days with the Union of Peoples and Organizations of Guerrero State, or UPOEG, Xaltianguis community self-defense force commander Miguel Angel Jimenez told reporters.


    Women were among the biggest supporters when the community self-defense forces were being formed, telling men that “either you join or I join,” Jimenez said. “Women are brave and we are capable of defending our town,” said Silvia Hipolito, a mother of two who joined the self-defense group.

    The women will learn how to use firearms and work schedules that allow them to continue taking care of their homes, Hipolito said. UPOEG (Unión de Pueblos Organizados del Estado de Guerrero) was created in January in Guerrero state’s Costa Chica region. Its members also wear hoods to help protect their identity.

    The women will be armed with a pool of about 80 firearms which they will use during their shifts. The cartels they are up against heavily outnumber and outgun them (with weapons (many fully automatic) supplied by our own government), but then I seem to recall a certain giant that was bigger and stronger and more well-trained and armed than a lowly shepherd boy too.

    May God bless the efforts of these women as they are the “Mama Bears” of their community.

    Well done ladies!


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    Over 100 Women in Mexican Town Take Up Arms to Defend Homes From Organized Crime

    August 21 2013
    by Dan Cannon



    Mexican women in at least one part of the country are taking the safety of their communities into their own hands.

    Over 100 women have signed up be members of a local self defense force.

    The women will be trained on the use of firearms and will work to guard their town in shifts of twelve people.

    The women will be armed from a pool of about 80 firearms that they will use during their shifts. The guns appear to mostly be hunting rifles and shotguns. This makes them significantly outgunned by cartels and organized crime who don’t follow Mexico’s strict gun control laws and carry semi-auto and fully automatic rifles.

    According to LAHT,
    “I trust that the people, once they know that the women are participating,” will provide more weapons, Jimenez said.

    Women were among the biggest supporters when the community self-defense forces were being formed, telling men that “either you join or I join,” Jimenez said.
    “Women are brave and we are capable of defending our town,” said Silvia Hipolito, a mother of two who joined the self-defense group.
    The group in charge of the self defense group, the Union of Peoples and Organizations of Guerrero State, or UPOEG was created in January of this year to help fight the growing violent crime problem in some Mexican states.

    The members of the groups carry guns and wear hoods to protect their identities.

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