Tierra Caliente News

The Mexican government is sending thousands of additional troops to the violence-stricken western state of Michoacan, a military official said Thursday.

After all, Austin is home to many of the small town's young people, so much so that Bejucos' nickname is "Viejucos," a play on the Spanish word for old people.

Authorities in southern Mexico say gunmen opened fire on four local police officers, killing them and two bystanders.

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Mexico's newest drug cartel, and certainly the most bizarre, is La Familia Michoacana, a violent but Christian fundamentalist narco-gang based in the torrid Tierra Caliente region of western Michoacan state.