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General takes charge of public safety in Mexican state
Mexico City :: Mexico | 2 days ago
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Alberto Reyes Vaca will have command of the state police and of federal security forces stationed in Michoacan. The state's new public safety chief vowed to confront the challenges facing Michoacan and to ensure that the forces under his direction
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Mexico violence pushes 2 companies to relocate
Querétaro :: Mexico | 15 days ago
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The economic development secretary of the western Mexican state of Michoacan says two major firms have decided to relocate their distribution centers to escape violence. Ricardo Martinez says yogurt giant Dannon and pharmaceutical company Grupo Casa
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At least seven dead in Mexico clashes
Buenavista :: Mexico | 20 days ago
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AT least seven people have been killed in clashes between suspected criminals, security forces and citizen security groups in the western Mexican state of Michoacan. "The last report that we have is the seven people have been killed in gun battles,
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Criminal Cartel Threatens Mexican Baked Goods Company Bimbo,Owned By Billionaire Servitje Family
Mexico City :: Mexico | 1 month ago
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Grupo Bimbo is being threatened by the criminal group Los Caballeros Templarios (The Knights Templar). The organization, a savage cartel that operates in the drug-plagued Mexican state of Michoacan , has threatened to burn trucks owned by Bimbo,
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Mexican vigilantes set aside masks, checkpoints
Mexico City :: Mexico | 2 months ago
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The leader of Mexico's best-known group of vigilantes said Thursday that his followers will set aside their masks and highway checkpoints, but they won't disappear. Rather, Bruno Placido said his group is seeking to form a national movement with
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Mexican troops detain 34 'self-defense' vigilantes
Mexico City :: Mexico | 2 months ago
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Mexico (AP) Mexican soldiers have detained 34 vigilantes who formed part of a self-defense group'' that allegedly kidnapped police officers and seized police equipment earlier this week in the western state of Michoacan. The army raid in the town of
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Spread of vigilantes sparks debate in Mexico
Mexico :: Philippines | 3 months ago
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Mexico, after the latest group popped up with suspiciously sophisticated weapons, printed T-shirts and clothing that doesn't reflect the usual mix of participants. The new group of vigilantes is armed with some assault rifles, in addition to the mix
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Mexico butterfly country: Monarchs by the million
Mexico City :: Mexico | 3 months ago
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Mexico (AP) He found the love of his life 2,000 miles (3,200 kilometers) from home in a chance encounter that gave him butterflies, and she moved west to be with him. So of course, Jason Skipton told me, there could be no better place to propose
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Mexican mayors pay 'tax' to stay alive
Morelia :: Mexico | 3 months ago
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A Mexican mayor was having breakfast with his wife in a restaurant when he was gunned down this week. To avoid a similar fate, mayors in the western state of Michoacan admit they must pay off drug cartels. Wilfrido Flores Villa, interim mayor of the
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Fearing drug cartel, Mexican village turns vigilante
Cherán :: Mexico | 7 months ago
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A masked resident of Urapicho village, in Michoacan state, member of a security commission, stops a car while guarding a main entrance of the town. At the entrance of this western Mexican village, farmers in ski masks carry rifles as they man a
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