Michoacan’s Most Wanted Drug Kingpin: Mexico’s Hot Land (Dispatch 1)
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- Опубліковано 8 бер 2015
- Mexico has nabbed the leader of the infamous Knights Templar drug gang, and now the territory he once controlled is up for grabs.
VICE News travels to the contested Mexican state of Michoacan to find out whether the power balance will shift following his arrest.
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The citizens are armed, to protect themselves, there’s no underlining reason. Stay strapped or get clapped.
OIFOEF Veteran thanks captain obvious!
It’s so stupid but so true.
@@johnporkthe3rd51 Let the guy speak your sarcasm does not apply..
Sergio Sanchez 🤣🤣🤣🤣
OIFOEF Veteran yea you got it man
Hold up. Youre telling me that armed civilians are all it takes for criminals to leave law abiding citizens alone? That... This cant be!
thats what I said!!!
Murica 1776 that needs to happen here in Chicago lol
Murica 1776 nope they are Wolves dressed as sheep.
Just take a look to Michoacán today.
Plus there's a documentary that shows a secret meeting were mafia bosses agreed to become comunitarios.
yes, ITS CRAZY !!!! that a civilian protects other civilians !!!
Reasons are that the Civilians are tired of local PD or the government dont fo much to protect them so they put themselves in safety and try find drugdealers
I miss riding behind a truck.
I'm really interested to see how a Mexican Asian looks like.
Me 2. What part you from? Im from Michoacan and i miss it
Jose Correa to you im asking the question *****
Tommy Wiseau XD well basically I look asian but I am a Mexican. You can search it.
Jose Correa my parent are from Mexico but I am a Mexican.
It’s actually really impressive how they fought off a cartel out of their home and now they live peaceful my respect for them
This comment didnt age
Actually Jalisco cartel financed the autodefenses, 2013 around they started fighting the caballeros templars and in 2017 they betrayed jalisco cartel and joined to caballeros templars, so never were real civil people always had weapons from cartels, imagine now pieblos united or cartels united or autodefenses sell drugs and with that money they buy weapons to groups such Hellzboya,
All government all including police, military, gobernor are part of the pieblos United cartel is that all corrupted
@@elcuhaaron7113 what happened??
@@Moneyteamsb goverment turning a blind eye on the cartels
Goverment made guns illegal so now only criminals carry them
Cartels terrorize people do things as bad as the terrorists in middle east
@@Moneyteamsb there’s a war once again in Michoacán, and it seems like the biggest of all our history
I'm Dominican !! Que vivan los hermanos Mexicanos y los Vigilantes...mano dura con los carteles que abusan de gente inocente.
Gracias hermano Dominicano!
Lamentablemente esos vigilantes se convirtieron en un cartel 😢
So? BFD
Nmms los vigilantes ahora son un cartel
@@andresmeraz1996 y poco peor que los anteriores amigo
Eso muy poca gente lo save que michoacan cambió para mal desgraciadamente
im from michoacan and its so good to start seeing peace after long bloodshed
It’s a lot worse now
This comment makes me sad. I wish I could go back.
Terrible now
@@jusjus3146 really?
@@370gtalej5 was it better when the Knights templar was there? Who replaced them I'm boricua i hope Mexico finds peace
Should of blurred they're face so they can be safe.
everyone already knows who they are already in fact my uncle took a picture with the girl in the first clip so I already recognised her. I won't post the picture cause he is a Mexican Marine and they would hunt him down :P.
You've given out too much info as it is, if they want they can find your uncle now because of your comment. Hope alls well
natural disaster yeah
Chicago Hype they don’t have to anymore. They used to mask up tho
@@naturaldisaster2645 Yeah because they're trolling these comments jajaja funny
Whole heartily support this guys, bravo! Well done!
When both your parents originate from two states that suffer from cartel violence, Sahuayo, Michoacan x Iguala, Guerrero. Gotta pray for Mexico as the violence increases every year. 🙏
Michoacan girls are hella fine!
Jaime V they alright but the girls form Jalisco and Sinaloa are the finest
thats why the world got different colors and flavors for different taste
Antonio girls are finest no matter the state you stupid as fuck
Chato Garcia L
who are you talking about?
Lmao you talking in ENGLISH catches attention over there
They are probably all already working fir the local Cartels, this way the cartels have control over the territory and everybody thinks it's all quiet.
Nicely done, very interesting!
It's nice to see that Mexico now has some hope in the hard times that the country has been going through. Thank you, VICE NEWS, for sharing this with us.
Great Video! Props to you for heading out to a country thats not your homeland and making a great video out of it. much love..
good on the ground reporting thanks
Fantastic!! Great job these civilians are doing to protect their own! Mexico needs more like them!! The good people of Mexico deserve happiness, safety and peace! You are heros! God Bless you!
I do not see anything bizarre about civilians arming them self and forming militias to protect themselves. I come from the U.S.A and there are plenty of civilians with weapons and plenty of non government militia. I being one of them armed civilians, and happily I didn't have to steal them, I simply bought it at the store.
マクミラン George dont listen to these fucks crying about having guns, the entire world wants to disarm america so they can sweep in and take all your GDP
Those militias you speak of are ran by other cartels behind the scenes, CNJG or whatever their called supplied the weapons to the militias to bring down the knights templars
@@xXBrownBoy12Xx in the US some of these “militias” are actually homegrown terrorist groups
Until you or we stand in there shoes we should stfu.Mexico ain't America.
Difference between these Militias and the one you're in, is that the Mexican Militias actually go out and get some, these guys are hard core, have bodies to their name and are actively hunted by the Cartels and literally fighting to preserve their way of life as well as there survival... you on the other hand, what is your militia fighting against?? "HURR DURRR THE NRA SAID I CANT HAVE MUH 30 ROUND MAGS, MUH 3 DAY WAITING PERIOD, THEYS BE TAKING MUH BUMP STOCKS, OPPRESSED, OPPRESSED, LIBERTY OR DIEEE REEEEEE" bro shut up you're nothing like these REAL militias lmfao
I need mor of this, it's a good series I hope they continue with it
Nice, great work
i just came back from apatzingan michoacan and i was impressed by all the fine girls there! bellezas!!!!!!
Romulo de Silva omg lucky I was born there
Isabel Lopez. i went to school there , i was born in cali and started school there 3rd grade hasta 3rd grade de secundaria La Federal. like i sed i just came bck from las fiestas el mero 22 de octubre!!!! saludos desde Texas!
Wow lucky you. I wish i had papers haha, its been 8 years since i havent been there, i stay in atlanta
Isabel Lopez dam! sry to hear that! but you will , no te rindas! mucha suerte para ti y puedas ir a disfrutar de lo bello de Apatzingan y Morelia !!!!! y feliz dia de Thanksgiving! !!!
Isabel Lopez casate con aygen que tiene papeles
I'm from Yurecuaro, I remember if you went out past like 7 PM, you were asking for trouble. The streets were empty, which made me sad because growing up I remember everyone outside and kids playing late into the night. I'm glad that now its slowly easing back into those times, but for a while those cartels just ruined communities.
Thank you for this VICE!
My beautiful Michoacan. I lived in Morelia after HS for about a year to learn Spanish. It breaks my heart to see what has happened to this beautiful colonial city.
My moms from there and been there twice
It's a beautiful place with beautiful people and land❤️
Totally awesome!
I have family that lives in that area.
Pretty excited and sketched out to go back this summer.
I'm a wetto I lived in Morelia I lived on the street there in downtown of you go looking for trouble you will find it lost my debit card so I had to beg from these humble beautiful people for peso to eat I live Morelia and love Mexico I was like the only wetto these people saved my life I had I small blanket freezing out the park outside of the blue hospital and was g given a tent and a blanket and are free at 8 PM every night no one ever gave me a hard time and I was on the street at all hours I remember almost crying at getting 43 peso for food and mescale to ease the pain of no hope anyway I made it back to the States I still go back to Morelia and love Mexico
Richard Hurts am glad to 👂 that, any tome bro
Liar
Richard Hurts you mean *güero ?
Richard Hurts its great to hear you made it back. Saludos amigo.
Iam happy vigilantes groups like these are taking their small towns backs.. More groups like this need to appear so they can take all those cartels and criminals out of Mexico.. Slowly Mexico is becoming a better Country..
For real ma dude, maybe there's a little hope in Mexico after all 💯
well bruh i aint trying to be negative but look at shit like this. niggas in the towns have to steal their guns from the cartels themselves. even the cops dont have guns like those. niggas are gonna have to fight with rocks even. yeah theres hope but if those vigilante groups are pushing drugs themselves then whats the point?
what the people need to do is start a revolution & overthrow the government, although the people might take back their towns from cartels the government still fucks them over. cartels won't ever die out until corruption ends.
EDZiLLUH you need to stop voting for conservative presidents and conservative parties that reject legalization of drugs keeping drugs illegal is keeping violence high
@@fuckyoshit6842 its crazy cause the knights templar was a armed defense group and eventually started pushing drugs. The head guy was a teacher.
Good training
This video was cut very poorly. Did you watch this video before you uploaded it?
I'm very happy for the Mexicans.
God bless and keep up the amazing progress
This lady has no idea what she's talking about I have family in Michoacán in fact I just came back from visiting them and it's not as serious as she makes it seem
Michoacan sucks
Arriba Zamora , MICHOACAN MX
Jesus Sanchez tengo familia en michoacan mx en un pueblo que se llama tungi tiro y en pascuaro familia juarez por parte de mi jefe y familia en colima y michoacan en morelia y tierra blanca y tierra caliente tengo muchos anos que no voy a visitar a Mexico. yo soy original de California pero mis jefes de mexico si extrano mexico y mi familia alla
joker juarez lo mas importante es de donde viene tu sangre es todo homie
Mike Kings simon
Good video .but stay safe !!
that's mad lit
1:12 what does she mean ? I see a lot of SUVs in Mexico and they not cartels 😂
Antonio:dude, i seen people drive better cars in mexico than some people i know in u.s mexico is not poor its far from that some people use their wit and borrow money from friends to stablish business its a Social structure, its a people move.
Antonio ur stupid pendejo she said that they told them not to take something that might catch attentions, do u speak english or no?
You missed the point. She's not saying that only drug cartels drive Suvs or luxury cars. Suvs attract attention. If a drug guy sees a nice car he likes..what does he do?... he stops it..and takes it. Therefore, it is a good idea to take a car that doesn't attract attention, so that one isn't pulled over.
But those luxury cars are more common in big cities than towns as Morelia Michacan
Sinaloa because they're tourists
3:11 just a using a drako as a paper weight lol
Way to go guys!
Much respect,God bless these people
michoacan sounds hardcore af.
It's aight
If the US would end the drug war none of this would be necessary.
No they will just countinue selling slaves and illegal guns. If we get rid of that then they would probable just make their own countries.
varocks183 What were they killing each other over, genius? Also - what gang are you talking about? During what era?
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Fenrirthewolf Let's keep doing what obviously isn't working because something else *might* happen, flawless logic...
I honestly wonder how that would play out. I hope its the cure
Wheres part 2 of this
Let's just hope that Mexico can follow in the footsteps of Colombia.. Good luck guys
Funny im from Apatzingan in tierra caliente ("hot land") and now im living in Montreal, the origin of VICE while VICE is down there
A. G-E same here buddy Apatzingan, Michoacán .
My family is from Michoacan Mexico and I've been there yo Morelia and i live about 1 hr and 30 min away from there but we live in the hills and its a beautiful place/state btw the pueblo i live in/visit where my relatives/family is called La Estancia near Zinapecuaro de Figueroa something like that
I live in texas but i have seen the mountain town of southern mexico it is such a simple and innocent place poor but wholesome. I wish i lived in my home town huitznopala
***** yeah. Ik wat u feel. I travel from West Palm Beach, Florida to there to visit my uncles and grandparents,cousins,friends etc. And i was born here thx to my parents and i just wish i could live there.
Zamora
Ya te olvidaste del Spanish o estas desaculturizado?
Michoacan best state in Mexico👌👍
I am from a farm town called La Palma 20 minutes from El paso mureto! I miss my family and friends! PURO MICHOACAN !!!!
I was born in Morelia but my mom brought me to the states when I was still a new born basically ( I was 2 months old , born in early June came to the states in the late days of August )
That's where I'm from and the police is the cartel really lol...
basically 4 minutes come on.
My family's home land . I visited Morelia when i was just 8 yrs old. My mother' and father and their family's lived there since the great mexican revolution. I remember the smell so perfectly clear. Of the dirt beneath my feet ,mountains in the sky ,animals all around me, a huge lake that dries up and fills up every year a couple feet away from my grandparents house. I want to go back someday and bring my kids.
When did this come out wtf
I'm Michoacan de Morelia!! Oh how much I miss it 😫
lol, ok? like if its so easy. Why wont you shit out thr money for me?
Its a beautiful state...I lived in San Juan Nuevo for a year and half. I'm going back soon..
tan lindo mi Mexico pero tan bandido...
mexico lindo y bandido
México lindo y jodido
México limpio y torcido xP
Lol The opening scene of this video looks like my living Room
2:26 what song is that? Que canción es esa?
money money makes the juchi go ju ju
this all an exageration i was in michoacan mexico a week ago and it is honestly not that bad there its calm and the people are more friendly than most americans
+Scorpion1928 Because the Auto Defensas cleared up the state. When the Templars had control over Michoacan it was complete chaos.
hmmm so same amount of weapons if you go in addams complex apts near and south of los angeles or one ways in south gate or norwalk
Where are the Capo's in the UsA? I never heard about them..
"Templarios" significa demonios las estatuas diabólicas de los antiguos edificios
México leads Latin America
Alfa7beta0 in crime
Obnoxious Ignoramus lol why you got be a-hole dude
I think Brazil would think differently
Er Petrich
Mexico's economy is stronger than Brazilian economy
I am Brazilian.
Obnoxious Ignoramus
sad but true
My most endeared trip has always been my visit to Purepuro, Michoacan.
My grandpa came from this state when he was 17. I live in Michigan kinda cool the states sound the same
I think the mean the same thing land of fish or something like that
as a young boy I grow up in Michouacan. it was beautiful currently in Vegas baby the American dream
my respects
Not the American dream
VICE News travels to the contested Mexican state of Michoacan to find out whether the power balance will shift following the arrest of the leader of the Knights Templar cartel.
Watch "The New King of Coke (Full Length)” - bit.ly/1zchU6u
You should travel to tamaulipas to shed some light on how fucked up it is there
Pancho Panochas Yes they should definitely go Tamaulipas
This report said the smartest thing about drug trafficking I have ever heard a journalist say, you CANNOT fight Economics, YOU CANNOT DO IT. EVERY example of organizations trying to fight the market rules of economics ends in failure. The Financial incentives are TOO HIGH for prohibition to ever succeed.
Rose BPOS Obviously Vice-Jews is cheap Anti-Mexican propaganda.
Gracias, VICE
They said good night means good evening 😂😂😂
wishing the best to my family in jiquilpan mich.
Todas esas Armas han entrada por la frontera norte, Casialidad??? No lo creo
Mi sangre que corre por mis venas, viene de Michoacan. Familia cancino.
Tu direcsion tambien porfabor si eres tan amable👍😄😂
Ayyy shoutout to Morelia Michoacán
Dope, im from the northern part next to GTO. Morelia is a beautiful city though, even with the narcs.
I believe that the Knights templer are still operating
They are. In Guerrero Mexico as well.
Alex Morales do they operate in Acapulco by chance
@2:43 the radio mentions my uncles name he was a leader in the civil defense unit
always wanted to go fishing down to Mexico but I've been told and cautioned that kidnappings occur and random killings I was very scared if I went but I would love to go to experience Mexico but it seems in this day and age is not going to happen if anyone could give me some advice I would appreciate it
I sure miss the street enchiladas from my pueblo Caracuaro, Michoacan. Yo voy estar alli para las fiestas del año nuevo✌
Going undercover as an American Drug Addict.
I would cover my face...
Foreal they think no one is watching......
ChitownG82 of the patio around the way you could
Plot twist: The drug war is controlled by hydra
"Cut off one head two more shall takes its place" 0:52
I had an aneurysm trying to read the first word
Ariva puro Michoacan yo soy de aya de Michoacan Morelia
yo tambien, de la aldea
Donde es ?
Es municipio de morelia
Big L oooo okay y tambien soy de Ciudad Hidalgo Michoacan tambien
Michoacan Morelia ja!
I live travel here and all around and I never seen stupid shit like this all this is a small town and trust me it's a beautiful place and safe there's nothing happening like the news says fail they should do more research on the places they go and make there shit shows
cris munoz really??I asked relatives and friends..n they claim it's still dangerous..and since I look white. n come from U.S I'm afraid I'll get confused for someone who has money....how often do u travel?
gustavo cambron boiii I'm whiter than you and i go to mexico all the time. No seas mamon
gustavo cambron there's people way whiter than you living in mexico they'll probably just laugh at you
Jajaja, alright jajaja? I'm guessing you looked up my prof. pick..? What part of Michoucan are ya from?
look man i go every 3 months and thereas actual whites walking around like nothing its safe they aint going to think u have money shit we even have chinesse out there no one cares there everyone is nice dont belive everything u hear like they say dont judge a book by its cover
Can't wait to go back
I've been to Morelia, Michoacan. it's a very beautiful town and a lot of hard working, smart and honest people come from here. yes....it's fucking crazy sometimes over there but for the most part the people are beautiful
I wonder why Vice-Jews never talk bad about Obama or embraces topics like the Fast and Furious scandal or crack-cocaine addiction in the liberal-black ghettos of Miami, New York or Washington DC.
biased media = propaganda
" VICE JEWS "
lmao
Where'd you here that from? For instance why do you refer to jews?
The drug problem is global not regional
jew boy
LOL
Alfa7beta0 bruh Miami is a joke. More stuff be poppin in my town than Miami and we are considered a slow town. Slocala ocala we them Cala boys ridin at night.
I like the fact you send more reporters after Ayotzinapa doc, great work Vice, we need that people around the world know how fucked up our country is.
are toyotas flashy?
That wall needs to be built ASAP
Scary, my family lives there
go to El Suchual or Las Parotas
You still sat up' even as a bike approached?
Finally Mexico is standing up for its citizens by its citizens 🌞🙏🏽
Where is their Government?
@@HOLYLEAGUE obviously corrupt
There is a reason why war on drugs will never get anywhere and as long as there are users there will always be a new seller/leader.
It's no joke !
Guns don’t kill people. People kill people. Taking away guns from citizens prevents them from protecting themselves and their family.
Banning guns or limiting the acquirement of guns will never stop the criminals from getting guns.
Omg I've passed by there all those trees are mangoes.Its like a lil highway.
I couldnt see. Was that ar or m4?
Probably just some Chinese copy of either.
Most of the time they are ar's
What's the reporters name ?
Good for them!
Damn my great grandmother and greatgrand father came from michuacan when they where like 8
Y Arriva el cerro! De Lake Town A Ataclan !