An armed woman who goes by the nickname "La Chola," and who says she is a member of a female-led, self-defense group, patrols the edge of her town of El Terrero, where it shares a border with the town of Aguililla, in Michoacan state, Mexico, Thursday, Jan. 14, 2021.
“We women are tired of seeing our children, our families disappear,” the vigilante said. “They take our sons, they take our daughters, our relatives, our husbands.” Beside the barricades and roadblocks, the female vigilantes have a homemade tank, a heavy-duty pickup truck with steel plate armor welded on it. In other towns nearby, residents have dug trenches across roadways leading into neighboring Jalisco state, to keep the attackers out.
And that same year, in the next town over, San Jose de Chila, the rival gangs used a church as an armed redoubt to fight off an offensive by Jalisco gunmen. Holed up in the church tower and along its roof, they tried to defend the town against the incursion, leaving the church filled with bullet holes.
El Terrero is not far from the town of La Ruana, where the real self-defense movement was launched in 2013 by lime grower Hipolito Mora. After successfully chasing out the Knights Templar cartel, Mora, like most of the original leaders, has distanced himself from the so-called self-defense groups that remain, and is now a candidate for governor.
Good for them. This is exactly citizens need access to firearms. My grandmother guarded her farm from marauders during the Great Depression just like this. Human nature has not changed. We will always need to defend ourselves.
Taking their country back 👍
They should. The alternative is not good. If they do nothing, the cartel will likely kill their males, steal their daughters and rape them for dead, so doing something is better than nothing.
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Shouldn’t it be “woman road blocks”? Shame on you for being sexist describing road block workers.
This is badass and really sad at the same time. I hope these women can get some peace in their lives.
Great pictures.
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Jalisco! No tr rajes!
Women are goin to rule the world...
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Failed state.
You mean 'woman' roadblocks?
Women who man roadblocks? Someone was paid to write that mess of a sentence? 🙄
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