Most Americans have a soft spot for posses that take up the critical dangerous threats to the locals that the state won't bother about.  We like people who take risks in the name of "protecting the people."  We tell discontents abroad to pick up a rifle. In cartel-infested Mexico, whose current presidential administration and last presidential administration both made a point of not bothering the cartels much, spontaneous self-defense forces fighting the cartels are suddenly appearing, with the rise of "kill the killers" vigilante groups.  No doubt about it, a Mexican public sick of the cartels has created an opening.  A new Daily Beast story opened with this: First he trained and worked as an assassin for Mexico's most powerful crime group; now he uses that training to "clean up" cartel infestations. And according to the Yucatán...(Read Full Post)