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Shooting. According to Mexican Deputy Security Minister Ricardo Mejía Berdeja, the attack began around 2:00pm local time in the town of Yerbabuena, before spreading to the town square of Tuzantla. [3] [4] [5] The fighting began after a rival faction of La Familia entered the town, shooting at the Tuzantla-based faction. [3]
On 19 September 2022, a moment magnitude 7.6-7.7 earthquake struck between the Mexican states of Michoacán and Colima at 13:05:06 local time. [ 1][ 4] The earthquake had a depth of 26.9 km (16.7 mi), [ 1] resulting in a maximum intensity of VIII ( Severe) on the Modified Mercalli intensity scale. The USGS reported the epicentre was 35 km (22 ...
The Mexican drug war is a low-intensity conflict which began in 2006. Michoacán, in western Mexico, is badly affected by the conflict. Several massacres have occurred there, including a mass shooting on 27 February 2022 in San José de Gracia. [2] Rival gangs in the area are also involved in smuggling of gasoline and in illegal tapping of ...
According to Alma Guillermoprieto of The New Yorker magazine, [23] Stefanie Eschenbacher of Reuters news service, [24] and a number of other sources, [25] [26] tens of thousands of people in Mexico have gone missing since 2006, a problem that started with a wave of violence unleashed by the "War on Drugs" declared by President Felipe Calderón and his mobilising of the Mexican armed forces to ...
Mexico is supported by the United States in this conflict through the Mérida Initiative. The 2019 Western Michoacán clasheswere a series of armed confrontationson 30 August 2019 between the Jalisco New Generation Cartel(CJNG) and the El Abuelo Cartel based in Tepalcatepec, Michoacán, Mexico. The clashes began early in the morning, when CJNG ...
Michoacán is located in western Mexico, and has a stretch of coastline on the Pacific Ocean to the southwest. It is bordered by the states of Colima and Jalisco to the west and northwest, Guanajuato to the north, Querétaro to the northeast, the State of México to the east, and Guerrero to the southeast.
Morelia. / 19.76833°N 101.18944°W / 19.76833; -101.18944. Morelia ( Spanish pronunciation: [moˈɾelja]; from 1545 to 1828 known as Valladolid, Otomi: Mänxuni) is a city and municipal seat of the municipality of Morelia in the north-central part of the state of Michoacán in central Mexico. [ 3] The city is in the Guayangareo Valley ...
Governor of Michoacán. Incumbent. Alfredo Ramírez Bedolla. since October 1, 2021. Term length. Six years, non-renewable. According to the Political Constitution of the Free and Sovereign State of Michoacán de Ocampo, the exercise of the Ejectivo Power of this Mexican organization, it is deposited in a single individual, that denominates ...