After visiting the school, Victor finally checked out the militia self-defense team of San Miguel village.
Their ages were uniformly between 19 and 25, in their prime.
There were about 40 of them.
They held AK47s issued by the government, which didn't require much skill; just pull the trigger, no grenades, landmines, or bulletproof vests.
One word: Fight!
The drug traffickers who come to such a village could not be on a large scale. A dozen or so, or even twenty-something, wouldn't they be pinned down and beaten?
Never underestimate the blood of Mexican villagers.
In 2012, a minor leader of the Knights Templar Cartel, with 30 drug traffickers, went to collect a "cultivation fee" and ended up clashing with the local villagers.
The villagers brought out RPGs, blew up the pickup trucks brought by the traffickers, and laid down suppressive fire with machine guns. The video was viral on the foreign internet.
