Mexico deploy army in Michoacan
Mexico deploy army in Michoacan
Mexico announces armed forces will take over security in western Michoacan state, engulfed by violence between vigilantes and drugs cartel.
Tuesday 14 January 2014 - 08:09
Federal forces will take over security in a large swath of a western Mexico state where firefights between vigilante groups and drug traffickers erupted over the weekend, a top Mexican official announced.
Interior Secretary Miguel Angel Osorio Chong on Monday said federal forces with support from Michoacan state police will patrol an area in the state known as Tierra Caliente, the home base of the Knights Templar drug cartel.
"Be certain we will contain the violence in Michoacan," Osorio Chong said.
He gave no details on what federal agencies would be involved or give numbers on planned forces. Some federal police and troops have been sent to the region in recent months because of the unrest, but have generally not intervened.
Osorio Chong made the announcement after a meeting called by Michoacan state governor Fausto Vallejo following a weekend of firefights between drug traffickers and some of the vigilante groups that have sprung up by the dozens over the past year to confront the gangs.
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