There will be no extension of the deadline of 10 May for members of ‘self defence’ groups in the western state of Michoacán to join rural state police or rural defence corps and register their weapons, or to disarm, the federal commissioner for Michoacán, Alfredo Castillo, said on 6 May. If the government is to meet its half of the bargain, however, federal security forces will also need to capture the leader of the local drug trafficking organisation (DTO), Los Caballeros Templarios (LCT), Servando ‘La Tuta’ Gómez Martínez, by the deadline of 10 May.End of preview - This article contains approximately 989 words.
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