With the police providing little or no protection against this kind of violent crime, inhabitants of Guadalajara's forgotten outskirts have begun forming vigilante groups known as autodefensas, or self-defense squads. Vigilantes have famously fought drug gangs in the nearby states of Michoacn and Guerrero in recent years, but their emergence in the major city of Guadalajara, the capital of the state of Jalisco, is more recent and hardly reported.
Gazing out over El Salto's scorched scrubland as he patrols the dirt roads of his rundown neighborhood, Ral Muoz, a 59-year-old former guerrilla, says he leads the largest of 27 autodefensa cells scattered across the town
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