So far in 2013 Mexico has attracted billions of dollars of new investment from foreign companies, but it has also witnessed the emergence of vigilante groups in several parts of the country where the federal government has been unable to effectively combat organized crime.
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Bruno Placido, a member of one of the vigilante groups active in Guerrero, told local media the couple had acted "imprudently" when they had refused to stop at the roadblock.
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The occupation - on the road linking Mexico City with the beach resort of Acapulco - came in response to the murder of vigilante leader Guadalupe Quinones Carbajal on Monday.
Iranians remain uncomfortably aware that the Ansar-e-Hizbullah, a semi-official vigilante group, has in the past been accused of murdering reformists.
Five men have fled Londonderry in the past week after being threatened by the vigilante group, Republican Action Against Drugs.
All of this produced the handsome, morose man we encounter at the very beginning of "Batman Begins, " when Bruce Wayne, wandering the mountains of Asia in search of wisdom, is approached and temporarily seduced by a vigilante group called the League of Shadows.
It was later unearthed by members of Anonymous who decided their vigilante justice and digital investigative skills were needed in the case.
While Anonymous, the vigilante hacking group, has always accepted donation in Bitcoin, more mainstream websites like Reddit and online gambling sites have increasingly begun to accept bitcoin as a means of simplifying their online payment methods.
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He was accused of a vigilante murder in 2002, but later acquitted after going on the run for several months.
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Most recently, he stepped in it big time by saying that Trayvon Martin, the Florida teenager killed by a vigilante, contributed to his own death by wearing a hooded sweatshirt.
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