Overview
- Governor Alfredo Ramírez Bedolla named José Antonio Cruz Medina as security secretary, succeeding Juan Carlos Oseguera Cortés.
- Ramsés Adalid Vega Sayabedra was appointed subsecretary of Operation Police, replacing José Ortega Silva.
- State authorities frame the changes as a move to consolidate the federal Plan Michoacán, which is deploying more than 10,000 Army, Navy and National Guard personnel.
- Cruz Medina arrives from the state prosecutor’s office and has prior roles in the National Guard and the defunct Federal Police, with a profile described as close to federal leadership.
- Multiple outlets report that federal security chief Omar García Harfuch pressed for Oseguera’s removal following weeks of tension after the killings of Uruapan mayor Carlos Manzo and limonero leader Bernardo Bravo.