Mexicans fear they are all targets now Sep 18, 2008
Two years ago, gunmen in the city of Uruapan dumped five human heads onto the floor of a dance hall, auguring a wave of drug-hit beheadings that has only worsened. Calderon chose Michoacan as the first place to send troops when, as a newly elected president, he announced his crusade against drug traffickers in December 2006. (Los Angeles Times)
Organized crime takes control in parts of Mexico Sep 15, 2008
The winnings from the trafficking of illegal cocaine, marijuana and other drugs are on view in Uruapan: There are luxury car dealerships, stores selling expensive furniture and homes that locals say belong to drug traffickers, distinguished by having no windows facing the street and thick walls on all sides and strings of electrified wires atop the walls. Violence between competing drug gangs reached a peak in 2006, when drug commandos knows as the Zetas tossed five severed human heads on a... (Anchorage Daily News)
Grupo Aeroportuario del Pacifico Reports Passenger Traffic Decrease of 13.9% for August 2008 Sep 9, 2008
In the case of the Tijuana airport, this decline was principally due to a reduction in traffic on the routes to Guadalajara, Mexico City, Culiacan, Guanajuato, Morelia, Hermosillo, Aguascalientes, La Paz, Monterrey, Los Cabos, Acapulco, Uruapan, Los Mochis, Ciudad Juarez, Tepic and Colima. These decreases were mainly due to the decline in operations from Aviacsa, Aeromexico, Mexicana and Avolar on routes to and from the previously-mentioned cities. (PR Newswire)
Mexican violence soars Aug 26, 2008
Meanwhile, a city hall official, Maribel Martinez, was kidnapped in the city of Uruapan, in the western state of Michoacan. "Several people took her away as she was leaving a work meeting on Sunday night," an official from the Michoacan prosecutor's office told AFP.. (iAfrica.com)
Hot Spots For Shoppers Jul 23, 2008
(25 miles north of Uruapan) is a small Pur;pecha town famous for its high-quality, handmade stringed instruments. You can buy a reasonably priced guitar, violin, cello or traditional guitarr;n at shops and home factories throughout town and at the Expo Cuerdas in the Casa de la Cultura on the main plaza or visit the Centro Para la Investigaci;n y el Desarrollo de la Guitarra, a school, museum and concert hall. (San Francisco Chronicle -- Travel)
Mexican military helicopter crash kills 9 Apr 19, 2008
One person remained in serious condition after the accident outside the city of Uruapan, said Carlos Mandujano, director of the state's civil protection services. He added that crews were still pulling bodies from the wreckage. (MSNBC -- International)
Eleven killed in Mexico air crash Apr 19, 2008
The Bell 212 helicopter went down around midday (1800 BST) near Uruapan. Eyewitnesses said they heard the engine cut out as it tried to land. (BBC News -- Americas)
Cheap Flights from Tijuana, Mexico Sep 15, 2007
Avolar has direct flights from Tijuana to Acapulco, Colima, Cuernavaca, Culiac;n (NS), Durango (NS), Guadalajara, La Paz (NS), Morelia, Le;n (Bajio), Oaxaca, Puebla, Quer;taro, Tepic (NS), Toluca near Mexico City (NS), and Uruapan. NS indicate flights that are always non-stop many other flights are at times non-stop flights in one direction only or only on certain days. (Suite101.com)
Violence in Mexico claims five more lives Jul 10, 2007
Hernandez died on the spot, and his companion was sent to Uruapan General Hospital. Authorities said they had identified the criminal. (Xinhuanet, China)
Fugitive murder suspect caught Feb 24, 2007
Mexican police arrested Perez on Saturday in Uruapan, a town about 175 miles west of Mexico City, officials said. "Our investigators started receiving information from here and there that the responsible might be in Mexico," said Bob Guthrie, the district attorney's office chief investigator. (Modesto Bee, CA)
Mexico: A fruitful situation for avocado fans Jan 28, 2007
URUAPAN, Mexico Mexican avocado growers will be watching the Super Bowl next Sunday, but not because they're interested in the victor. LUIS J. JIMENEZ / Copley News Service Celia Aguilar (left) and her co-workers readied avocados for shipment to the United States on the assembly line at Mission Produce in Uruapan, Michoacan ... They said Mexico was corrupt, that it could not guarantee a pest-free product, Mendoza said as he inspected his orchards in Uruapan, the center of avocado production in... (San Diego Union-Tribune)
A new war on Mexico's drug cartels Jan 22, 2007
In the most gruesome incident, gunmen in September stormed a nightclub and hurled five heads onto a dance club in Uruapan, Michoacn. Most of the bloodshed has been restricted to cartels, but police and journalists have also been targeted, and feuds have migrated from Mexico's northern border with the US to the entire Pacific corridor, as the dominating Gulf and Sinaloa cartels as well as their subsidiaries battle for billion-dollar routes and territory. (Christian Science Monitor)
* Mass grave found in drug war Jan 7, 2007
An anonymous call sent police to an abandoned warehouse in Uruapan, about 290km west of Mexico City in Michoacan state ... Uruapan itself has been the site of some of the most brutal slayings in Mexico, including a Sept. 6 attack in which gunmen dumped five severed human heads onto a bar dance floor. (Taipei Times, Taiwan -- World)
Nine bodies found in Mexico grave Jan 6, 2007
Nine bodies have been found in a mass grave in Uruapan, in the western Mexican state of Michoacan ... In one incident, masked men burst into a bar in Uruapan and flung five human heads onto a crowded dance floor in an apparent warning to a rival gang. (BBC News)
