Sunday, March 15, 2015

Highway 200 blocked in Michoacan


Inhabitants of the indigenous community of Ostula blocked the federal highway 200 which crosses the coast of Michoacan due to government actions.

Motorists are advised to take alternate routes on the way Tecoman-Lázaro Cárdenas.

On March 13, as a means of pressure against the disarmament of self-defense movement in the region of Los Reyes,  the Regional prosecutor's based in Zamora ordered the Mexican Army to carry out this action. Members of the movement and the Rural referred Force (FR), blocked for more than two hours highways in different parts of the region, mainly access to Lázaro Cárdenas, until they achieved the return of weapons, which were they had collected.

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