‘Let Them Wage War With Other Cartels’

A cell of armed men appears in the dead of night somewhere in the state of Michoacán. They’ve assembled before the camera to release an important communique.  

For this broadcast, a diatribe goes out against several individuals who are accused of committing extortions and murders in the state.  

Luis Enrique Barragán Chávez aka Guicho de los Reyes,  Alfonso Fernández Magallón, aka Poncho La Quiringua, and Juan José Farías, aka El Abuelo Farías, are rebuked for their alleged roles in criminal activities. 

Good evening to all the Michoacán citizens, federal government, and the leaders of the Ministry of National Defense. The day of a social uprising is very near. As citizens, we will protect our families and stop the murders of innocent, hardworking people committed by Wicho, Poncho, and Abuelo Farías. 

We say to the government, that if you are going to continue supporting the insults and abuses committed by these extortionists, the people will no longer allow it. Let them wage their war with other cartels. It’s not fair that we, the people, have to pay for this.

Their extortion and fee collection business is lucrative. But now, they’re trying to recruit our wives and daughters to form so-called self-defense groups. Open your eyes: these self-defense groups are hitmen under the command of Wicho, Poncho, and Abuelo Farías. It’s unjust to see them mess with the lives of people and hard working citizens.

We’re fed up with their persecutions, the government’s abuses, and their lies. The only thing they’ve ever given us was lots of empty promises. If Michoacán and Mexico need another revolution, it will be born here in Michoacán. The state of Michoacán will no longer live under the injustices of the government and the murders of the so-called self-defense groups.

As for you, Abuelo Farías, we all know that the government supports you with the weekly percentages you give them. Wicho and Poncho, we Michoacanos know that you are supported by the mayors of Los Reyes, Tingüindín, Tocimbo, and Cotija.

They’re the ones that allow them to have those scumbag public security directors who lend themselves to the disappearances of citizens and many other things. Let it be clear, government, this is our last warning. Expect us very soon.

Source: Ivan’s Daily Narco