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Tom Phillips and Analy Nuño in Guadalajara

Mexico vigilante leader’s killing highlights failure to curb violence

Olivia Mora cries over the casket of her brother, armed civilian defense leader Hipolito Mora, during his wake in La Ruana, Mexico, last month.
Olivia Mora cries over the casket of her brother, armed civilian defense leader Hipólito Mora, during his wake in La Ruana, Mexico, last month. Photograph: Eduardo Verdugo/AP

More than 150,000 people have been murdered since Mexico’s current president took power and Hipólito Mora suspected he would join them.

“I knew this day would come,” the lime farmer turned vigilante rebel wrote in a farewell message to be published in the event that it did.

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