Hipolito Mora’s brother urged Michoacan authorities to deliver justice or they will take up arms against Los Viagra.
Following the murder of Hipólito Mora, his brother Guadalupe Mora Chávez warned that if the Michoacán government does not bring them justice they will have to take up arms again in La Ruana, as they are fed up with the attacks by Los Viagra, a group that, according to him, is led by a man identified as Nicolás Sierra Santana.
“We are very angry, they are calling me and calling me friends of the people that why don’t I call the people here to take up arms, that they support me because they are just like everyone else, just like me, we are already angry with these people (Los Viagra),” said Guadalupe Mora in an interview with Pascal Beltran del Rio, for Imagen Radio.
Hipolito Mora’s brother assured that Michoacan authorities and even Governor Alfredo Ramirez Bedolla are in collusion with Los Viagra and also elements of the Army, as he said that the people of La Ruana have seen when members of the criminal group arrive to hand out money to them.
“Here everyone in the town knows that they are paying those who are here, they are giving them money, these criminals spend their time here, in full view of everyone and they do nothing, they are in agreement and there is even proof. Many people have seen when they arrive and they give them a little suitcase, a bag with money, they are in deep,” he said.
He accused that due to the complicity with this criminal group is that the authorities “do not do their job,” so he said that if they do not do justice for the murder of the former leader of the self-defense groups they will have to do it themselves.
“Imagine how we are going to be, we can’t stand these people anymore, so if the authorities don’t do their job, if they don’t give us justice, we are going to have to do it ourselves, we are going to take up arms,” he said.
“I know they are going to kill me too”: Hipólito Mora’s brother
Guadalupe Mora assured that the inhabitants of La Ruana have identified and located the members of Los Viagra, so he urged the Michoacan government to do its job and dismember this criminal group by capturing the leaders.
“Nicolás Sierra Santana, I know that the bastard is listening to me and I know that they are going to kill me too, but he won’t do it, I have to tell the truth about what is happening. Nicolás Sierra Santana is the boss of all these Viagras. Here in La Ruana there are several who are from La Ruana and we have them well located, we know who they are, where they live and everything,” he said.
Hipolito Mora’s brother reiterated that if the authorities don’t act, “if they don’t get these people off our backs we are going to do it ourselves, we hope that they will do justice quickly.”
“The governor Bedolla, who unfortunately we know is also very involved with them because my brother told me so. If he doesn’t act quickly, if he doesn’t act quickly to not leave us alone here in La Ruana and get these bastards out of here and arrest them, especially the leaders, if he doesn’t do that, we are going to do it, sir, we are going to have to take up arms again”.
Hipolito Mora died after the third attack against him in La Ruana when he was traveling in an armored truck with two of his bodyguards, when they were ambushed by armed men who shot at them with .50 caliber Barret rifles.
The body of the former vigilante leader is being watched over at his home in La Ruana, where his sons, brothers, family, friends and residents bid farewell to the man who left his lemon orchards to confront Los Caballeros Templarios, who had ravaged the region.
