Some Vigilantes Set Aside Masks and Checkpoints, Seek to Form National Movement Mark Stevenson - Associated Press
go to original March 15, 2013

MEXICO CITY - The leader of Mexico's best-known group of vigilantes said Thursday that his followers will set aside their masks and highway checkpoints, but they won't disappear.

Rather, Bruno Placido said his group is seeking to form a national movement with other "self-defence" groups that have sprung up throughout Mexico to fight crime fueled by drug cartels.

Placido said the vigilantes he leads in southern Guerrero state are trying to leave behind the concept of masked, armed patrols that have sparked conflict in recent weeks, after some groups were found to have possible links to drug cartels or engaged in tense confrontations with the army or rival cartels.

"We have left behind the stage of 'self-defence' and are opening a new page," Placido said. "The farmworkers who came out and joined the 'self-defence,' they can return to their work, the ranchers to their cattle."

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