Within the framework of the Michoacán Plan for Peace and Justice, the federal government launched an unprecedented operation to dismantle the criminal networks that operate in the entity, with the deployment of more than 12 thousand elements of the Army, Air Force, National Guard and Navy.
Mexico City, November 10 (However).- All the legitimate force of the State will be reflected over the coming week or months, as necessary, to dismantle criminal networks operating in Michoacan and for this purpose, 12,287 elements of the Army, Air Force, National Guard and Navy.
However, this will not mean, in any way, that an indiscriminate task of extermination will be carried out against organized crime organizations since the provisions of the National Law on the Use of Forcespecified the Secretary of National Defense, General Ricardo Trevilla Trejo.
The statements of the Secretary of Defense comply with basic principles in the use of legitimate State force: in the tough fight against organized crime, the Permanent Armed Force is not a murderer, nor is it an avenger. Applies and enforces the law, seeks justice, with the firmness or harshness with which it is necessary, according to the circumstances.
“Every State, particularly its law enforcement agents, has the obligation to guarantee security and safeguard public order. From this general obligation arises the power of States to use force, which finds its limits in the observance of human rights, because although state agents can resort to the use of force and in some circumstances, the use of lethal force could even be required, the power of the State is not unlimited to achieve its goals, regardless of the seriousness of certain actions and the guilt of their authors,” says the Inter-American Commission on Human Rights in its 2015 annual report, when analyzing and defining standards applicable to the use of force.
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Furthermore, in its Article 8, the National Law on the Use of Force warns: “The protocols and procedures for the use of force must address the gender perspective, the protection of girls, boys and adolescents, as well as the attention to risk situations inside or in the vicinity of daycare centers, schools, hospitals, temples, detention centers and other places where people other than the aggressors congregate.”
An unprecedented plan
As part of the Michoacán Plan for Justice and Peace, announced this Sunday, November 9, 2025, by President Claudia Sheinbaum Pardo, the Permanent Armed Forces of our country will carry out the Paricutin Operations Plan, to prevent extortion and contain intentional homicides and other high-impact crimes.
It will also contribute to generating technical investigation and arrest warrants, preventing drug trafficking, destroying synthetic drug laboratories, destroying drug plantations and avoiding confrontations between criminal groups.
The Secretary of Defense explained that there will be an agile, flexible and dynamic deployment that will include the 4,386 troops currently deployed in Michoacán as well as 1,980 more elements that arrived in that entity this Monday, November 10, 2025.
But the most interesting operation will be the containment operation, in which another 4,140 elements will participate who will seal the borders of Michoacán so that criminal groups do not enter or leave the entity. It is intended that concurrent operations be coordinated with the territorial commands of the states of Colima, Jalisco, Querétaro, Guanajuato, the State of Mexico and Guerrero.
5 helicopters will be used for this operation; a strategic unmanned aerial system; 18 drones; 43 anti-drone systems; 5 cells against explosives; 2 research cells; 3 demining vehicles and 1,031 military vehicles.
Currently the states with the greatest presence of the Army are Baja California, Guerrero and Sinaloa.
Of course, the Mexican Navy will also participate in the Paricutin Operations Plan, reported the head secretary of that force, Raymundo Morales Ángeles, who explained that to close the paths to organized crime in Michoacán, security operations will be carried out with 1,781 elements integrated into 7 Marine Infantry Companies, 2 sections of Operations in Mining Areas, 5 Explosive Ordnance Disposal Teams, 5 Special Operations teams and 6 Cells of Intelligence.
The Navy units will be supported by 4 intelligence, surveillance and reconnaissance aircraft; 5 unmanned aerial systems; 8 helicopters; 6 ships and 108 vehicles. Navy operations will focus on coastal municipalities such as Lázaro Cárdenas, Aquila and Coahuayana.
The states that currently have the greatest Navy presence are Veracruz and Colima.
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