Hipólito Mora: Difference between revisions

| birth_place = Buenavista Tomatlán, [[Michoacán]], Mexico

| death_date = {{death date and age|df=y|2023|06|29|1955|07|26}}

| death_cause = [[Assassination|Assassination by gunshots]]

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'''Hipólito Mora Chávez''' (26 July 1955 – 29 June 2023) was a Mexican farmer and politician. He founded a [[Grupos de autodefensa comunitaria|vigilante self-defense group]] in his town of La Ruana in response to [[Mexican drug cartel|cartel activity]] in the region, specifically by the [[Knights Templar Cartel]]. People in La Ruana were tired of the cartel's kidnappings and threats and its control of the harvesting and sale of limes grown by local farmers.<ref>{{Cite news |last=Tuckman |first=Jo |date=2014-01-17 |title=Vigilantes take on drug cartels terrorising south-west Mexico |work=The Guardian |url=https://www.theguardian.com/world/2014/jan/17/vigilantes-take-on-drug-cartels-mexico |access-date=2023-06-29 |issn=0261-3077}}</ref><ref name="AP" /> After fighting the cartel for months without any help, his group received help from Mexican troops and drove out the cartel from [[Michoacán]] between 2013 and 2014. He was one of the few fighters to remain in La Ruana after the cartel was expelled.<ref name="AP">{{Cite news |author1=Fabiola Sánchez |author2=Mark Stevenson |date=2023-06-29 |title=Anti-gang community defense activist Hipólito Mora slain in Mexico |work=AP |url=https://apnews.com/article/mexico-activist-killed-drug-cartel-bf8cd1c5daf3b84b53d89a45ac2fdfb5}}</ref>

 

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