The Inter-American Commission on Human Rights has told the Mexican government to provide the necessary medical attention to a jailed vigilante leader who holds dual U.S. and Mexican citizenship. The Washington-based body wrote in a January 28 decision that it found adequate reason to be concerned for the health of 41-year-old Nestora Salgado, a resident of the Seattle suburb of Renton. Salgado was arrested in August 2013 after people detained by the community self-defense force she leads in the southern state of Guerrero alleged they had been kidnapped. A federal judge cleared Salgado of those charges last year, but related state charges have kept her locked up.
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Nestora Salgado is a Mexican-born woman who arrived in the U.S. at age 20
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Seven years ago, she decided to return to her native Olinalá, a mountainous town in the troubled Mexican state of Guerrero
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She ended up becoming part of a movement to establish a vigilante-style community police force
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Such a force is allowed under Mexican law to help fight crime and corruption
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She claims she was fighting crime and that the charges against her are nothing but a political vendetta
A state law allows @placeholder and Guerrero's other indigenous communities to organize their own police forces.