Vigilantes on rise in Mexico

By George W. Grayson
October 8, 2009

Criticism is surging against the heavy reliance on the armed forces to combat the Tijuana Cartel and other venal Mexican drug organizations. The assignment of the military to undertake law-enforcement duties has sparked charges of human rights violations even as citizen self-defense groups are springing to life. Former Foreign Secretary Jorge Castañeda, a board member of Human Rights Watch, has urged the U.S. State Department to withhold 15 percent of MeÌ