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Mexico ex 'self-defense' vigilante leader dies of COVID-19

| November 25, 2020 6:30 PM

MEXICO CITY (AP) — Jose Manuel Mireles, one of the leaders of a civilian militia formed in 2013 to fight a drug cartel in western Mexico, died Wednesday, a government health agency confirmed.

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