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Uruapan has been the center of a territorial dispute between the Jalisco-based Jalisco New Generation Cartel (CJNG) and the Los Viagras cartel based in Michoacán, where Uruapan is located. [1] Reprisal attacks and public killings have been commonplace in the city, and in August 2019, nineteen bodies were disposed of on the road near Uruapan. [1]
Two soldiers are killed in a landmine explosion in Michoacan blamed on the La Resistencia cartel. [101] 18 December – Two soldiers are killed in a landmine explosion in Michoacan blamed on drug cartels. [102] 19 December – Seven inmates are killed in a prison riot in Villahermosa. [103]
Uruapan massacre: August 8, 2019 Uruapan, Michoacán 19 19 Bodies found in three parts of the city Coatzacoalcos nightclub fire: August 27, 2019 Coatzacoalcos, Veracruz 31 [134]-32 [135] 31-32 people die in an arson attack on a bar in Coatzacoalcos, by Jalisco New Generation Cartel: 2019 Western Michoacán clashes: August 30, 2019 Tepalcatepec ...
On August 8, 2019, Mexican authorities confirmed the discovery of 19 bodies in Uruapan, Michoacán. The Jalisco Nueva Generación Cartel, through narcomantas, claimed responsibility for the massacre, whose bodies were abandoned in three parts of the city. Six of the bodies found were hung on a vehicular bridge and others were found dismembered. [1]
Mexico is one of the most dangerous countries in the world for journalists and among the ones with the highest levels of unsolved crimes against the press. [1] Though the exact figures of those killed are often conflicting, [2] [3] press freedom organizations around the world agree through general consensus that Mexico is among the most dangerous countries on the planet to exercise journalism ...
Uruapan officially became a municipality in 1831. For its role in the War of Independence, it was named a Ciudad del Progreso (City of Progress) in 1858. [6] [13] In 1842, the city supported the rule of Antonio López de Santa Anna. [6] Because of the French Intervention, the Uruapan was the temporary capital of Michoacan from 1863 to 1867.
The ninth district's head town was at Uruapan and it covered six municipalities: Nuevo Parangaricutiro, Taretan, Tingambato, Uruapan and Ziracuaretiro, as in the 2022 plan, plus Gabriel Zamora. [7] [8] 1996–2005. Under the 1996 districting plan, the district's head town was at Uruapan and it covered seven municipalities:
Nazario Moreno González (8 March 1970 – 9 March 2014), commonly referred to by his aliases El Chayo ('Nazario' or 'The Rosary') and El Más Loco ('The Craziest One'), was a Mexican drug lord who headed La Familia Michoacana before heading the Knights Templar Cartel, a drug cartel headquartered in the state of Michoacán.