Michoacan, the Birthplace of Mexico's Drug War, Is Still a Violent Quagmire David Agren - VICE News
go to original January 16, 2015

In December 2006, former Mexican president Felipe Calderon launched the country's current war against organized crime by sending troops to his home state Michoacan, a place that is now bristling with tension and renewed fears after a string of shootings in recent days.

One year after the federal government sent a special commissioner to take over security in Michoacan, claiming the commissioner would disarm the militias that had risen up against drug gangs, the state is still violent and impunity still pervades for serious crimes such as extortion, kidnapping, and homicide.

The militias remain armed and the violence appears to show no sign of letting up, signalling the persistent inability of federal forces to create tranquility for residents caught in the cross-fire between opposing forces.

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