Civilians began to rise up in arms there about two years ago to defend themselves against the criminal groups that kill, kidnap and extort money from residents. Tierra Caliente is a center of drug production and trafficking in Mexico and has been a focus in President Enrique Peña Nieto's security strategy. The slaying of Enrique Hernandez of the left-leaning Movement for National Regeneration, or Morena, party prompted authorities to reinforce security along the state line between Michoacan and Jalisco, which also forms part of a region known as Tierra Caliente, or hotlands. Tanhuato is minutes from Yurecuaro, where a political candidate was fatally shot last week during a campaign event.
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After the attack, the national security commissioner, Monte Alejandro Rubio, told Mexico's Televisa network that "the full force of the Mexican state will be felt in the state of Jalisco." In early April, Jalisco New Generation ambushed and killed 15 members of the federal police, the largest death count in an attack on state forces here since 2010. The army was in pursuit of a cartel convoy when the copter was downed. Tension between the Jalisco New Generation cartel and the Mexican government has been high since members of the cartel shot down a police helicopter with a rocket-propelled grenade early this month, killing six soldiers. Details about who died in the gunfight were not immediately available. Early reports Friday suggested that the Jalisco New Generation cartel, Mexico's fastest growing criminal group, might have been behind the attack in Tanhuato. The region has seen intense drug-related violence in recent months, at least in part because of the approaching midterm elections June 7. The firefight occurred in Tanhuato on Michoacan's border with Jalisco state. More than 100,000 people have been killed in drug violence in Mexico since 2007.Reporting from Mexico City - A gunfight between Mexican police and suspected criminals in the cartel-dominated western state of Michoacan left at least 39 people dead Friday, according to authorities and news reports. The remains of only one of the missing students has been identified. The Mexican government says the students were abducted by corrupt local police, who then handed them over to a drug gang which executed the students and burned their bodies. The town is less than 200 kilometers (125 miles) away from the city of Iguala, where 43 students training to be teachers disappeared last September, igniting nationwide protests and causing a crisis of confidence for President Enrique Pena Nieto.
Earlier this month a Chilapa mayoral candidate from Mexico's ruling Institutional Revolutionary Party was shot dead.
Jose Diaz Navarro, who represents the families of the missing, told the Melinio news website that the armed group "took away young men they accused of being 'halcones' " - lookouts for gangs.Ĭhilapa is at the center of a turf war between two rival gangs, Los Rojos and Los Ardillos. "They say there were accompanying their relatives when they were snatched by a group of armed citizens," Guerrero State chief prosecutor Miguel Angel Godinez Munoz told a local radio station. Of the 15 missing people, 11 have been reported kidnapped and four have disappeared, according to the attorney general's office. The townspeople held protests against the presence of the group. The armed men left the town on May 14 after making an agreement with the local government, which included the resignation of the police chief. The 15 people disappeared after a group of about 300 armed men entered Chilapa and took control of the town on May 9. The state of Guerrero has been plagued by drug crime and political corruption for years. An investigation into the disappearances is underway. The attorney general's office of Guerrero state said the 15 went missing last week in the town of Chilapa, which has seen recent violence ahead of a national election scheduled for June 7. Fifteen people have disappeared in the same southwestern Mexican state where 43 trainee teachers were believed to be killed last year, the state attorney general's office announced Tuesday.
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