The Mexican government’s answer to a mayor’s brutal murder
Plan Michoacán’s attributes explain much of Sheinbaum’s security approach.
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It has been just over a week since Carlos Manzo’s murder. Though the popular mayor’s death sparked the greatest outrage and media attention, Claudia Sheinbaum’s administration understands the issue goes far beyond Manzo’s municipality of Uruapan.
Manzo was only the latest in a string of organised crime-linked murders in Michoacán, so the federal government’s approach has been to address criminal violence across the whole state.
The greatest issue facing Plan Michoacán—Sheinbaum’s 14 point initiative, devised after Manzo’s murder, to bring peace and prosperity to the state—is the same problem facing the rest of Mexico:
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