Fire with fire; We had no choice; "Drug trafficking pulled over us arm ourselves"

Almost two years after his arrest, Jose Manuel Mireles argues that the paramilitaries had no choice but to take up arms to fight organized crime in Michoacan.

 Arguments.

"Those responsible for the violence in Michoacan are crime cartels. Who gave our way of fighting were themselves; it had no choice but to respond in the same way, fire with fire , "he said in a recorded message from prison.

The General Council exvocero Autodefensas in Michoacan noted that for over 12 years the government's fight against crime did not give results.

He considered that when the law is contrary to justice, justice must prevail no matter that this comes from the people.

"That is why the paramilitary face the crime and why some of us are prisoners, but we have no doubt that at the end of our judgments will prevail truth and justice because fix this kind of slavery is the highest aspiration of all social fighter , "he said.

For the activist, jailed since June 27, 2014, the struggle of armed civilians prevented another generation of children and youth finished his days enslaved to organized crime or prison.

Release.

The message was released during a rally held yesterday in the center of Morelia to demand the release of fellow surgeon who took up arms in 2013.

Mireles was arrested after entering his men to the community of La Mira, municipality of Lazaro Cardenas, to take control of security to the criminal siege of the Knights Templar group.

The activist was charged with crimes against health and the Federal Law on Firearms and Explosives, I being held in the maximum security prison in Hermosillo, Sonora.

Last March, the federal government rejected a defense request to relocate the doctor to state prison Mil Cumbres, arguing that the detainee is billed as a high - risk prisoner.

"THE SELF - DEFENSE ARE AN ENDANGERED BREED. WE ARE A GENERATION OF PEOPLE BELIEVE IN LIFE ARE VALUES HIGHER THAN LIFE ITSELF AS THE COUNTRY, FAMILY AND FREEDOM ".

"The work of all social fighter is to be with his people, among his people, not behind bars , " said Mireles in the recorded message from prison.