Overview
- President Claudia Sheinbaum announced the Plan Michoacán por la Paz y la Justicia, adding federal security reinforcements and detailing a strategy built on intelligence, zero impunity and social programs.
- Key measures include a specialized high‑impact crimes prosecutor for homicide and extortion, biweekly security mesas, stronger anonymous reporting for extortion, and economic and education initiatives for rural communities.
- Protests and unrest continued in Morelia, Uruapan and Apatzingán, with eight arrests reported in the capital, damage at the Apatzingán city hall and vandalism in Uruapan met by tear gas from police.
- Investigators have reported the alleged shooter as Osvaldo Gutiérrez Vázquez, “El Cuate,” with purported cartel links, but Sheinbaum said the attacker has not been formally identified.
- Grecia Quiroz, the mayor’s widow, met privately with Sheinbaum, urged peaceful demonstrations and is being proposed to assume the Uruapan municipal presidency, according to local authorities.