Hipólito Mora, vigilante crusader against Mexico’s drug cartels, killed in ambush

One of the leaders of the violence-scarred country's self-defense' movement was cut down in rural Michoacan

One of the founders of Mexico's self-defense" movement, the lime farmer turned vigilante crusader Hipolito Mora, has been murdered in an ambush - the latest macabre chapter in the country's unabating crime conflict.

Guillermo Valencia, a politician from the violence-stricken state of Michoacan, where Mora helped launch a rural revolt against narco-traffickers 10 years ago, announced the news on Twitter.