The State Attorney General’s Office (FGE) managed to increase the effectiveness in the investigation and prosecution of the crime of femicide by up to 79 percent last year, according to an official report; it exceeded the national average by more than 60 percent. The statistics were analyzed by the civil organization, Mexico Evalúa, and it […]

On October 1, 2015, Silvano Aureoles Conejo took office as governor of Michoacán. The state had already been experiencing a war between criminal groups for more than 9 years. However, under his administration, the conflict intensified and left two organizations as the big winners: Los Viagras and the Jalisco Nueva Generación Cartel (CJNG). During the […]

During the first days of March 2025, four former collaborators of the former governor of Michoacán, Silvano Aureoles, were arrested by members of the Attorney General’s Office (FGR) and sent to the Reclusorio Oriente in Mexico City where they must appear before the security agency. The former president is being accused of a series of […]

Lemon packing plants in the Apatzingán Valley, Michoacán, remain closed indefinitely due to persistent extortion by organized crime, confirmed producers and the Association of Citrus Growers of the Apatzingán Valley (ACVA). According to Milenio, despite security operations and the arrest of alleged perpetrators, the situation in the Tierra Caliente region has worsened, seriously affecting the […]

A 16-year-old boy from California, United States, died this Wednesday after being injured while elements of the National Defense Secretariat (Defense) were rescuing him from his kidnappers in Uruapan, Michoacán. Around 7:00 a.m. this Wednesday, the young man, who was studying at the Instituto Morelos high school, was intercepted by armed subjects in the center […]

In Michoacán, the findings of explosive devices continue and now 12 of them were located that were ready to be used by organized crime. The Army and the Civil Guard of Michoacán located a box with 12 homemade explosive devices, in the community of Razo del Órgano, municipality of Buenavista Tomatlán. Consult: The dollar beats […]

After the country recorded a new historic 2.3 percent increase in remittances during 2024, Michoacán managed to position itself as the first entity with the highest receipt of foreign currency. This was reported by Heliodoro Gil Corona, who said that the 2024 records indicated that Michoacán received 5,643 million dollars in remittances. The economist said […]

On Tuesday afternoon, it was reported that more than a dozen explosives used by drug trafficking groups that are involved in a war for criminal control of Michoacán were seized. In a statement from the Secretariat of Public Security (SSP) of Michoacán, it was reported that together with personnel from the Navy, they located an […]

During security and surveillance actions, state and federal agents captured Francisco Manuel “N”, alias ‘El Panchillo’, in Pátzcuaro, Michoacán, identified as a generator of violence in the lake area of ​​the municipality. According to the reconstruction of the events shared by the State Attorney General’s Office (FGE), the events occurred on the afternoon of February […]

The trade war between Mexico and the United States over tariffs has reached the leadership of the PRI in Michoacán, where its leader Guillermo Valencia Reyes declared that in the state tariffs are already being paid to drug traffickers who extort all lemon and avocado producers. During a work tour of the region that connects […]