'We've reached a point where the local authorities are tapped out, and so unfortunately it's necessary to call in extra forces to try and restore the peace to Michoacan,'
From Daily Mail
Thousands of heavily armed soldiers have been deployed in Mexico in the government's latest efforts to crack down on the country's drug war.
Troops set up roadblocks on major highways in the western state of Michoacan on Saturday in response to a series of drug gang attacks on police.[...]
The surge, one of the biggest in the three-year drug war, came after drug gangs targeted federal police following the capture of a high-ranking member of the local La Familia cartel.[...]
The large deployment of troops comes less than five months after a similar effort to rid Ciudad Juarez of drug gangs.
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