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Mexico Launches ‘Plan Michoacán’ With Security Surge and 57 Billion-Peso Investment After Uruapan Mayor’s Killing

The government is pairing a stepped-up military and policing presence with targeted social and economic investment and immediate on-the-ground supervision in Michoacán.

Overview

  • President Claudia Sheinbaum unveiled a 12‑axis plan with more than 100 actions and roughly 57 billion pesos, pledging personal reviews every 15 days and monthly public progress reports.
  • The security strategy centers on four pillars—addressing root causes, bolstering the National Guard and state police, strengthening intelligence and investigation, and full intergovernmental coordination—plus new anti‑extortion tools, subsites of the Anti‑Extortion Unit and dedicated 089 operators.
  • Defense launched Operation Paricutín, fielding 10,506 Army, Air Force and National Guard personnel, including 1,980 newly added and 4,140 in border containment, with helicopters, drones, anti‑drone systems and demining vehicles to curb homicides and extortion.
  • The Navy will add 1,781 personnel with infantry companies, special‑operations teams, intelligence cells, aircraft, helicopters and ships focused on Lázaro Cárdenas and other coastal zones and maritime interdiction.
  • Security chiefs Omar García Harfuch and Gen. Ricardo Trevilla will visit Morelia and Uruapan this week at the request of new mayor Grecia Quiroz, as authorities returned the 17‑year‑old assailant’s remains to his family and the Nurio community publicly distanced itself from him.