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Mexican Authorities Arrest Man Linked to Lime Farmer Extortion, Cartel Recruitment and Explosives Training

At the time of "Llanero's" arrest, Mexican Security Minister Omar García Harfuch said authorities seized a firearm, tactical ...
LAist

Mexican government sends help to Michoacan vigilante groups

In the Mexican state of Michoacan, armed vigilante groups that have challenged a powerful drug cartel are refusing to lay down arms. In the Mexican state of Michoacan, armed vigilante groups that have ...
Tickle The Wire

A Mexican Militia, Battling Michoacan Drug Cartel, Has American Roots

LA ESTACION, Mexico — Jorge Rios, 11 rifle rounds and a silver cross decorating his black flak jacket, lost his job as a dishwasher in Tucson for driving without a license. Santos Ramos Vargas, at 43 ...
World Socialist Web Site

Mexican state of Michoacán under military state of siege

The deployment of 2,500 more Mexican army troops in the western state of Michoacán signals a major escalation of the US-backed “war on drugs” being waged by the PAN party government of President ...
Los Angeles Times

Governor in Mexico’s troubled Michoacan state steps down

Reporting from Mexico City — Days after photos appeared purportedly showing his son meeting with a top drug trafficker, the governor of the beleaguered Mexican state of Michoacan resigned Wednesday, ...
Los Angeles Times

Outspoken mayor from Mexico’s Michoacan state found dead

MEXICO CITY — Ygnacio Lopez Mendoza was one of the few mayors from Mexico’s troubled state of Michoacan who openly sounded the alarm about the narco thugs whose extortion demands were targeting even ...

Mexico heavy rains kill at least 28

Floods caused by torrential rains have killed at least 28 people in Mexico this week and left behind a trail of destruction, ...
LAist

Mexican government partners with anti-cartel vigilante groups in Michoacán

In the Mexican state of Michoacán, armed civilian groups continue to challenge the powerful drug cartels in the region. The federal government began by calling earlier this month for the groups to lay ...
NPR

Michoacan Vigilante Groups Collaborate With Mexican Government

The Mexican government has a new plan to control heavily armed vigilante groups fighting back against drug cartels. The government announced this week it is making the militias a legitimate part of ...
Reuters

Timeline: Drug war ravages Mexican state of Michoacan

(Reuters) - A four-year army crackdown in Mexico's methamphetamine-producing heartland has provoked a dizzying increase in violence, fueling fears that the country is losing its battle against ...
Forbes

Mexico's Drug War: Substantial Changes Seen In Michoacan

During the first quarter of 2014, Mexican authorities managed to kill or capture a substantial number of high-level leaders of Mexican organized criminal groups, including top Sinaloa Federation ...