Mexico deployed thousands of extra troops to the western state of Michoacan on Monday to fight drug cartel violence.Some 2,000 army soldiers, 2,000 marines and 1,000 police officers were sent to the state, sources in the defense ministry and federal police told.
The government had already deployed 1,000 police and named an army brigadier general last week to take charge of public security in Michoacan, one of the country’s poorest states and home to drug-running routes.
