In Michoacán, federal authorities also seized explosives, firearms, cartridges, chargers, vehicles (two of them with handmade armor), doses of drugs and tactical equipment.
Mexico City, November 18 (However).- The Security Cabinet of the Government of Mexico reported on Monday that they were 12 people arrested within the framework of “Michoacán Plan for Peace and Justice“, which was implemented in said entity after the assassination of the Mayor of Uruapan, Carlos Manzoon November 1st.
Through a publication in eight explosive devices, four firearmsmore than 800 cartridges, 29 magazines, seven vehicles (two of them with artisanal armor), drug dose and tactical equipment.
In this sense, the Security Cabinet explained that supervision patrols were also carried out in the lemon orchards to protect the activities of the producers, in addition to sharing images of said actions and of the detained people, as well as the arsenal that was seized in Michoacán.
Within the framework of the Michoacán Plan for Peace and Justice, elements of @Defensamx1, @GN_MEXICO_ y @SSPCMexicoin coordination with local authorities, carried out security and proximity actions in different municipalities of the state, where they detained 12 people and secured 8… pic.twitter.com/AOZSdCAy1y
— Mexican Security Cabinet (@GabSeguridadMX) November 17, 2025
In the social media publication, it was pointed out that elements of the Secretariat of National Defense (Sedena), the National Guard (GN) and the Secretariat of Security and Citizen Protection (SSPC) participated in the different operations, carried out between November 14 and 16.
Just on November 16, the Governor of Michoacán, Alfredo Ramírez Bedolla, appointed José Antonio Cruz Medina as the new head of the State Public Security Secretariat (SSP), with the purpose of strengthening the security strategy that President Claudia Sheinbaum presented last November 4.
“Today we take a firm step in strengthening our security strategy: José Antonio Cruz Medina assumes ownership of the State Public Security Secretariat,” shared the state president on his official X account.
In a statement, the Government of Michoacán reported that Cruz Medina assumes the position after serving as Deputy Prosecutor of the State Attorney General’s Office (FGE) of Michoacán, where he headed areas of analysis, intelligence and police operations. He also had responsibilities in the National Guard (GN) and the defunct Federal Police.
For her part, the President assured on November 4 that her Government will never return to the war strategy against drugs implemented by Felipe Calderón Hinojosa.
“War means permission to kill. War means that extrajudicial executions are allowed. What does an extrajudicial execution mean? That an element of a Mexican Armed Force can shoot a person simply by presuming that he is a criminal, not in self-defense, but having the order to execute. That was the war against drugs: extrajudicial executions. And they still dared to say that there was collateral damage, that is, people who They died in that process, because it was part of the war and it was justified. We will never have that strategy. First, because we are humanists and we do not believe that extrajudicial execution is a solution. […] That leads to nothing because that is injustice and does not build a humanist society, and we are foolish in building a humanist society within the Law,” he said.
“It is not just filling the state with soldiers, with the National Guard, and even less, although with presence, it is important, less with permission to kill. Not that. The war against drugs is not. That cannot return to our country and that is why this approach of the ‘Michoacán Plan for Peace and Justice’,” added Sheinbaum Pardo.