One of the last leaders of Mexico's anti-gang citizens' movement was buried Saturday alongside two of his faithful followers, and any hope of reviving armed civilian resistance to drug cartels probably died with them.
“Self defense” vigilante leader Hipolito Mora had long since ceased to pose an armed threat to the cartel that dominates western Mexico’s Michoacan state, as was clear from the overwhelming, deadly, multipoint ambush in which he and three followers were slain Thursday.
The cartel now dominating the state, alternately called the Viagras or the United Cartels, “is worse than the ones who were here before,” Mora’s brother, Guadalupe Mora Chavez, said. “He looked out for his town, for his people, and that is something none of us is going to do,” his sister, Olivia Mora, said in a tearful address in front of his coffin.
Mora always spoke out against the cartels’ extortion of local farmers and lime growers, ,even after his hundreds of followers had been reduced to a handful. “The ‘hugs not bullets’ policy has been the perfect fertilizer for growing drug cartels across the country,” he said. Residents of La Ruana, located in the torrid agricultural belt of western Michoacan state, did turn out by the hundreds Saturday for the funeral.
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