EL PASO, Texas (Border Report) – It was a little over a month ago that a cowboy hat-wearing Carlos Alberto Manzo called on residents of Michoacan, Mexico, to take up arms against drug traffickers if the federal government did not stop widespread murder and extortion.

“We have detained people and placed them in (state) custody only to learn they were freed and returned to their criminal activity,” he told Grupo Formula at the time. “We are calling on authorities to detain and prosecute these people. If that isn’t done, the alternative is to call on the people and make a more radical decision. If that implies taking up arms amid an institutional void, that is what they are forcing us to do.”

Manzo, the mayor of Uruapan, Mexico, was shot to death late Saturday near the city square in front

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