New gang on the rise in troubled Mexico -- Los Viagras
Apatzingán (Mexico) (AFP) - A new armed group is on the rise in Mexico's violence-wracked Michoacan state. It's called Los Viagras, and its members say they are fighting for "social causes".
The shadowy group is nevertheless also trying to take over old strongholds of a drug cartel on the decline, the Knights Templar.
In the mountains, members of Los Viagras are "quiet, waiting for the moment to muster strength and power," said Javier Cortes, a religious leader in the diocese of Apatzingan.
Apatzingan, a city of 120,000, is the economic hub of Michoacan's violent Tierra Caliente region.
It also is the former bastion of the Knights Templar, who terrorized the entire state in recent years under the protection of the local authorities. ...
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