Rappler's latest stories on Michoacan
Tourist bus crash kills 24 in Mexico
The victims were on holiday and on the way to the beach district of Ixtapa Zihuatanejo in Guerrero
Mexico arrests high-profile vigilante leader
Jose Manuel Mireles the face of a powerful anti crime vigilante group in the western state of Michoacan was detained after entering a town with more than 100 armed supporters
Vigilantes enter Mexican drug cartel's key bastion
Vigilante militias that have fought a drug cartel in western Mexico for a year entered a key gang bastion on Saturday
Mexico to give registered anti-drug vigilantes official status
Some 400 to 600 people are expected to be registered according to a federal government commissioner for security in Michoacan
Drug war: Mexican forces regain some ground in troubled state
The turmoil in Michoacan has become the biggest security challenge for President Enrique Peña Nieto s 13 month old administration undermining his pledge to reduce drug violence
Mexico: 22 killed in coordinated attack on police
Heavily armed men assaulted Mexican federal police units in a carefully planned attack in which 22 people were killed most of them assailants in six towns
