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Okay, The doctor is saying in this interview repeatedly that they want 7 CT leaders dead ("the AUC wants their heads,") and they'd like the proof with DNA testing because they have the knack of resurrection as we've seen "They Want their heads" is the figure of speech he uses for wanting them dead as doornails. It sounds literal but I'm sure it isn't meant to be taken so literally to think he is advocating decapitations or anything that "Zetaesque" But that is what it says. Again, he's using "want their heads," simply to mean for Michoacan to progress for the good of the people, they want to get rid of the seven CT leaders with proof of their DNA. And why wouldn't they want their heads? The CT's have been making their lives hell for far too long. If you read the post the context that he uses these words is really very clear.
Community Defense Groups: We demand the heads of the 7 Templarios leaders in Michoacan: Says leader Dr.José Manuel Mireles in an interview with Carmen Aristegui, MVS News.
In an interview with MVS News first issue, on Nov. 18, 2013, Dr. Mireles said that community defense groups continue to advance its goal and announced that so far there are community police in 45 regions of 19 municipalities in the Tierra Caliente area.
Among the Templars names Dr. Mireles mentioned are: Nazario "El Chayo " Moreno, Servando Gomez "La Tuta, " Enrique " El Tio Nicho "Plancarte, Rigoberto," El Tena"," El Chicano " and "El Toro. " He noted that in the region that has given rise to some criminals as has "El Chayo "and Plancarte, and spoke about a video posted three months ago where "El Tîo Nicho" called out challenging, Hipolito Mora, community leader in La Ruana, to his death.
Dr.Mireles affirms that the government has started positive actions as total disarmament in Vista Hermosa and Briseñas, but you need to keep covering more in the territory of Michoacan because these people keep kidnapping, killing, and these areas they are contaminated by organized crime.
"Many of our vehicles and also the Army's are cloned and they use our emblems, so you have to more careful about that ... we have armored vehicles that we have been seized from them ," he said.
José Manuel Mireles narrated that the last weekend they began with an operation in Tancítaro, after learning that the criminals had killed two young girls that they kidnapped, so self-defense groups in the region are concentrated in Buenavista and later took over city hall of Tancítaro.
"At 11:00 am, a farmer told us that we must be careful because they were preparing an ambush, so red alert was issued and that's when one of our cars was attacked with a blast ... I was in the van 4 truck back they wounded 2 companions who are already tending. When the fighting ended after 1 hour 45 minutes, they found two more bodies, and about 2 in the afternoon and they had found more bodies. We were told there were nine bodies of the Templar," he said.
Templarios attack defense group with grenades
He said the Army was around Tancítaro, they asked them to disarm, however they didn't believe the order and returned with guns in hand to Pareo where 3,000 people joined to make blocks.
Last week he informed that five people had been kidnapped, including the son of a businessman from Nueva Italia and four of the doctor's family members who were were dismembered and burned.
"Then comes the kidnapping of these little girls, all of whom live here, are part of families, families with pure courage to face this ... local media are saying it was a clash between police and criminals but the truth is that it was an attack against us (AUC)," he said.
Dr. José Manuel Mireles said they have offered their own guides to the authorities, because they know where "El Chayo" and "La Tuta" are, and will be, however as of yet there have had no response.
He charged that the authorities are aware of what is happening in the region from the moment the operatives leave from DF.
He stressed that after the arrest of a sicario in a raid by the police, the sicario said, he himself orders the operations, and it is he who warns them that they are going after them. "We arrived in the municipalities in support but these communities are those that are putting their own in trenches... sometimes they insult the clean work that we are doing, we are not forming any cartel nor are we or funded by one. We are looking to help end state of violence, we want clean elections," he said.
He noted that there have been invitations to become part of them but they are not accepted because they charge favors because they are criminals.
Video: Watch interview with Dr. José Manuel Mireles, on Monday November 18 in News MVS first issue:
Part 1 Video
Above - Video Part 2
Text: Read here Carmen Aristegui's full translated interview with Dr José Manuel Mireles:
