No Charges Against Mexican Farmers That Killed Cartel Members In Self-Defense

From the Telegraph, "Mexican farmers who killed 10 cartel members with sickles and shotguns ‘acted in self-defence’." The article relates:

    A group of Mexican farmers have been allowed to walk free despite killing 10 members of a cartel with sickles and shotguns in a “football field massacre”.

    The villagers engaged in a showdown with the gangsters earlier this month after they refused to pay them protection money.

    Armed with sickles, machetes and shotguns, the villagers killed 10 members of the notorious Familia Michoacana cartel at a football field in Texcapilla on Dec 8, and lost four of their own.

    Despite the showdown being dubbed by locals as “the massacre on the football field”, prosecutors from the state of Mexico concluded that cartel members had opened fire first and that the farmers had acted in self-defence with “the tools of their trade”.

That wasn't the end of the matter, though:

    Local authorities fear that the cartel has already exacted revenge for the defeat, with 14 villagers having disappeared in the days after the battle, including four children.

    Delfina Gómez, the governor of Mexico state, told Texcapilla residents that officials would not abandon them: “I tell you, you are not alone; we are with you.”

 But they are alone. The reason the showdown occurred is because the Cartel taxed extorted amounts from the farmers based on how much land they had under cultivation, but because of poor rains, the crop yields had declined. So the farmers set up the meeting to try and negotiate lower taxes extortion rates, which apparently didn't set well with the local Cartel leader. If the government had been fulfilling its obligation, this situation would never have arisen. If the Mexican government allowed its citizens weapons to defend themselves, this situation may never have arisen. 

    The article also points out:

    But the threat of violence from criminal gangs has led some Mexicans to seek protection by hiring private security forces.

    For example, also in the state of Mexico, chicken merchants from the city of Toluca have hired vigilantes to protect them from reprisals after they stopped paying extortion fees to criminal gangs. Last week four Toluca chicken traders were kidnapped in their warehouse and driven away in vans by armed men.

And these are the types of people that the Democrats, RINOs, the Chamber of Commerce, agricultural trade groups, and so on, are allowing and encouraging to flow across the border.