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Tom Phillips and Analy Nuño in Michoacán

Hipólito Mora, vigilante crusader against Mexico’s drug cartels, killed in ambush

Hipólito Mora’s son was killed in a conflict with the Knights Templar drug cartel.
Hipólito Mora’s son was killed in a conflict with the Knights Templar drug cartel. Photograph: Marco Ugarte/AP

One of the founders of Mexico’s “self-defense” movement, the lime farmer turned vigilante crusader Hipólito Mora, has been murdered in an ambush – the latest macabre chapter in the country’s unabating crime conflict.

Guillermo Valencia, a politician from the violence-stricken state of Michoacán, where Mora helped launch a rural revolt against narco-traffickers 10 years ago, announced the news on Twitter.

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