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Latest News Wires To tame drug violence, Mexican general takes control of chaotic Michoacan

As part of President Enrique Pena Nieto's strategy against drug violence, Alberto Reyes, a Mexican general was given control over all police and military operations in the western state of Michoacan.

By Lizabeth DiazReuters / May 16, 2013

Dario Lopez-Mills/AP

A Mexican general took over all police and military operations in a chaotic western state on Thursday in a test run of President Enrique Pena Nieto's new security strategy to tame raging drug violence.