Michoacan

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  Mexican Drug Cartel Forces Locals To Pay For Its Makeshift WiFi Or Be Killed

  The cartel set up its makeshift internet antennas in the embattled central Mexico state of Michoacan using stolen equipment.

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  Gunmen In Mexico Open Fire At Funeral Parlour, Killing 6, Wounding 4

  Gunmen burst into a funeral parlor in Mexico on Wednesday and opened fire on mourners, killing six and wounding four, authorities said. No arrests were immediately made after the assault in the town of Uruapan in western Michoacan state, which is situated along a Pacific coast drug trafficking route to the United States.

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  Mexican Federal Agent Shot Dead With Mother; Mayor Killed

  A federal intelligence agent and his mother were killed when assailants opened fire on their car in northern Mexico, an attack that came hours after a mayor in western Michoacan state was gunned down outside his home, officials said.

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  Mexico Gunmen Arrested Thanks To Spelling Mistake

  Four gunmen riding in a fake police car have been arrested in Mexico after the real authorities noticed a spelling mistake on their otherwise identical vehicle.

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  Shootout Between Federal Forces and Hitmen in Mexico Kills 43

  Government security forces killed 42 suspected drug cartel henchmen and suffered one fatality in a firefight in western Mexico on Friday, an official said, one of the bloodiest shootouts in a decade of gang violence wracking the country.

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  Mexico Mayoral Candidate Killed While Campaigning

  A former Mexican vigilante running for mayor was shot dead during a campaign event on Thursday in the troubled state of Michoacan, the third politician killed ahead of June elections.

• Search for Missing US Man Leads to Body in Mexico

  US authorities have traveled to southwestern Mexico to help determine whether a body found there is that of a New York man who vanished while riding his motorcycle to Brazil for the World Cup.

• Mexican Marines Capture Alleged Drug Gang Leader

  Marines detained one of the leaders of the La Familia drug gang who controlled Mexico State, near Mexico City, a top security official said Wednesday.

• Mexico Arrests High-Profile Vigilante Leader

  Mexican forces on Friday arrested Jose Manuel Mireles, a senior leader of the powerful anti-crime vigilante group in the western state of Michoacan.

• Mexican Forces Arrest 83 Vigilantes in Michoacan

  Soldiers and police arrested 83 suspected vigilantes on Friday on charges of carrying unauthorised weapons, including one of the founders of the "self-defence" movement in Mexico's western Michoacan state, authorities said.

• Mexico to Legalise Vigilantes Fighting Drug Cartel

  Mexico's government plans on Saturday to begin demobilising a vigilante movement of assault rifle-wielding ranchers and farmers that formed in the western state of Michoacan and succeeded in largely expelling the Knights Templar cartel when state and local authorities couldn't.

• Mexico urges anti-cartel vigilantes to disarm

  Mexico's government urged vigilantes on Monday to quit their growing armed struggle against a drug cartel and go home, saying federal forces will handle security in their embattled western towns.

• Ten killed in battles between armed groups in Mexico: reports

  Ten people were reported killed in clashes on Sunday between armed groups in the western Mexican state of Michoacan, which is plagued by battles between rival drug gangs.

• Earthquake causes buildings to sway in Mexico City

  A 5.9-magnitude earthquake struck in the Mexican state of Michoacan on Sunday night, causing buildings to sway 200 miles away in Mexico City.

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  Chasing pirates: Inside Microsoft's war room

  As the sun rose over the mountains circling Los Reyes, a town in the Mexican state of Michoacán, one morning in March 2009, a caravan of more than 300 heavily armed law enforcement agents set out on a raid. All...