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Weekly Report - 23 January 2014 (WR-14-03)
MEXICO: Federal forces assert authority in Michoacán
The conflict-torn area of Tierra Caliente in the south-western state of Michoacán is now under the full control of federal security forces, the interior ministry (Segob) revealed this week. More than 1,000 municipal police officers have been replaced and face a vetting process. The ‘self-defence groups’ have accused municipal police of colluding with the local drug trafficking organisation (DTO), Los Caballeros Templarios (LCT). Coming in conjunction with the capture of a senior LCT leader, this looks like a change of tactic, seeming calculated to persuade the self-defence groups that the federal forces have everything in hand and that they can disarm, obviating the need for the forced disarmament which led to violent clashes between the military and vigilantes last week [WR-14-02].
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