Morelia, Mexico News

The hard cement walls of the 20th-century building enveloping the Mercado San Juan hardly evoke the market's half-millennium of history.

A body is placed inside a forensic van along a highway in San Angel Zurumucapio, west of the state capital city of Morelia, Mexico, Thursday, June 13, 2013.

Authorities in western Mexico say a tanker truck carrying tar has slammed into a highway toll booth that had temporarily been taken over by protesting teachers.

Authorities in western Mexico say a tanker truck carrying tar has slammed into a highway toll booth that had temporarily been taken over by protesting teachers.

MORELIA, Mexico Three suspected drug-gang gunmen have been killed in a confrontation with community self-defense squads and federal police in the mountains of western Mexico.

Rome, Italy, May 30, 2013 / 04:12 pm .- A 43-year-old Mexican man whom Pope Francis prayed over in St.

Residents of the drug-ravaged town of La Ruana lined the streets on Monday to cheer the arrival of hundreds of soldiers.

Movement expected about the same. Trading seeded slow, others moderate. Prices seedless 35-60 counts lower, others generally unchanged.

Mexico's top security officials promised Tuesday that a new federal offensive to rescue towns besieged by the Knights Templar drug cartel in western Michoacan state would stay "until there is security and peace for all state residents." Interior Secretary Miguel Osorio Chong and his national security team met with local officials in the state ... (more)

Army troops are being deployed in Michoacan to restore order in the western Mexican state, which has been rocked by a wave of drug-related violence, federal officials said.

A group of armed guards stand with their weapons at the entrance of the town of La Ruana, Michoacan, Mexico, Monday, May 20 2013.