Operation Michoacán

Operation Michoacán
Part of Mexican Drug War
Mexican Army soldiers take cover during a gun battle in Apatzingan, Michoacán in August 2007.
Date December 11, 2006 – ongoing (10 years, 2 months, 1 week and 4 days) Location Michoacán de Ocampo, Mexico
Belligerents
Mexico Mexican Army Mexican Navy Mexican Naval Infantry Mexican Federal Police Municipal and State Polices Independent Civilian Vigilante groups known as Community Police (with official support from the government as of Jan 28. 2014)	La Familia Michoacana Knights Templar Cartel (Dis)
Commanders and leaders
Felipe Calderón Guillermo Galván Galván Enrique Peña Nieto Miguel Angel Osorio Chong Vidal Francisco Soberón Sanz Salvador Cienfuegos Zepeda Brigadier General Alberto Reyes	Nazario Moreno González † José de Jesús Méndez Vargas (POW) Servando Gómez Martínez (POW) Dionicio Loya Plancarte (POW)
Strength
12,000
Casualties and losses
50 soldiers killed 100 police officers killed	500 killed

 Mexico

Operation Michoacán was a joint operation by Federal Police, and the Mexican military, to eliminate drug plantations and to combat drug trafficking. Initiated on December 11, 2006, the operation was supervised by The Secretary of Public Safety, Attorney General of Mexico (PGR), Secretary of the Interior, Mexican Navy, and Mexican Army.

On some occasions state and municipal police have participated despite not being part of it. The joint operation has distinguished itself as one of the operations against organized crime, drug trafficking in this case, which has employed the largest number of military and police elements, as well as most state forces.

Following up on an operation planned by predecessor, Vincente Fox, on December 12, President Felipe Calderón ordered the military to send 4,000 troops to his home state of Michoacán, where drug-related crime had left over 500 dead. Troops were assigned to areas under the control of organized criminals, conducting raids, making arrests and establishing control points on highways and secondary roads. In 2007 May 8 in Apatzingan, Michoacán, Soldiers from the 51st Infantry Battalion engaged drug traffickers. Soldiers driving HMMWV armed with Mk 19 grenade launchers killed 4 cartel gunmen, 3 soldiers were reported wounded.

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