While Mexico’s constitution has long protected the right of indigenous groups to form their own policing and justice systems. The “community police” currently battling the Caballeros Templarios cartel in southwestern state of Michoacan have a different profile from other groups, perhaps most notably for the presence of locals who lived in the U.S. as migrant workers and at least one U.S. citizen. For instance, Edgar Orozco, a 27-year-old U.S. citizen left his home in California to come to ...
While Mexico’s constitution has long protected the right of indigenous groups to form their own policing and justice systems. The “community police” currently battling the Caballeros Templarios cartel in southwestern state of Michoacan have a different profile from other groups, perhaps most notably for the presence of locals who lived in the U.S. as migrant workers and at least one U.S. citizen. For instance, Edgar Orozco, a 27-year-old U.S. citizen left his home in California to come to ...
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