Just after 15:00 pm, the authorities gave for complete disarmament Apatzingán police and proceeded to establish mechanisms for restoring order, based on the "Agreement for the Federal Security Assistance Michoacan" signed on the eve between the Interior Ministry and the Michoacan government headed by Fausto Vallejo.
Michoacan press amounted to more than 3,000 items of federal forces sent to the region of Tierra Caliente, Michoacan, of which at least 300 were channeled to Apatzingán to restore order to this city convulsed by fires, shootings and clashes between different groups.
PHOTOGALLERY: Federal Forces enter Apatzingán
In the Tierra Caliente elements of the Department of National Defence, the Navy Department and the Attorney General's Office, among other agencies were sent. Also, reinforcements similarly dressed as civilians and soldiers , according to media Michoacan.
Local media also reported that the average on Tuesday was in Apatzingán at least 50 vehicles between patrols and armored same buses that has helped the federal forces to regain control of the region.
In Uruapan, the Army and the Federal Police entered the city police headquarters, where he quartered operational staff to present a review of weapons.
After 15:00, the Army ordered the concentration of all uniformed personnel for checking if all employees and registered weapons are the same that appear in payrolls and records of the municipality.
At 17:00 hours, local press warned of an apparent and very tense calm in Uruapan and Apatzingán.
SELF-DEFENSE ARMY retreat
While a quota of Mexican Army took Apatzingán Square, another was heading Nueva Italia, Chinicuila, Coalcomán Tepalcatepec and Parácuaro.
In virtually all of these populations could repel the paramilitary actions of special forces to try these armed civilian groups lay down their arms, as yesterday exhorted the Interior Minister, Miguel Angel Osorio Chong.
From social networks , self-defense groups called society in general not give much credit to local and national media about the actions of the army in Michoacán.
They also emphasized that the military claimed the lives of four people after trying to take the town of Cuatro Caminos and Antunez.
In Nueva Italia, the self-defense managed to block the entry of special forces. In Coalcomán Chinicuila and self-defense groups reinforced their barricades and called the villagers to repel the army.
From social networks, self-defense confirmed that no lay down their arms . They tried again as false the videotape in which José Manuel Mireles, one of the visible leaders of these groups, called disarm.
At the same time, veiled Parácuaro was one of the civilians killed last night in clashes between the army and the paramilitary Rodrigo Benitez.
In this regard, the National Human Rights Commission (CNDH) said that initiated an official investigation for alleged violations of human rights of four civilians, including a boy aged 11 , who died last night.
