Nazario Moreno Gonzalez, known as 'El Chayo' or 'El Mas Loco' was recently killed by Mexican government forces in Michoacan.

The Mexican Government has confirmed that a confrontation which resulted in the death of a man presumed to be Nazario Moreno alias "El Chayo."

The perception of vigilante groups in Michoacan is becoming increasingly fearful as some believe they are becoming the very group they sought to eliminate.

The U.S. ambassador to Mexico, Anthony Wayne has expressed his administration's hope that efforts in Michoacn would be met with "great success."

Authorities in Coahuila state made a grisly discovery over the weekend. It's as yet unclear how many people the remains belong to.

Two human heads were placed in front of a bank apparently by the drug cartel that controls a key state in Mexico, with a sign reading “for all those who switched sides.”

Autodefensa members in the Mexican state of Michoacán are lining up by the hundreds to become police in six towns.

Knights Templar leader Dionisio Loya Plancarte, known as “El Tío” has been captured early on Monday morning in Morelia by Mexican police.

Vigilante groups have taken over five more towns in the Mexican state of Michoacan, inching ever-closer to the city of Uruapan

In an interview with La Jornada, a former member of the cartel who has since joined a citizen militia in Michoacán claims that the cartel is feeling the financial pinch.

Michoacan vigilante leader Estanislao Beltran, spokesperson has claimed that the leaders of the Knights Templar Cartel have fled Michoacan.

Vigilante groups in the Mexican state of Michoacan have found an unlikely ally in the State's Catholic clergy.

The Mexican government has sent in the army and federal police to control public security in the state of Michoacán. On Wednesday night, in the state’s largest town, unidentified men shot at a Justice Department building there.

State PRD Senator Silvano Aureoles Conejo has called on both local and federal governments to address the social instability and insecurity rampant in Michoacan.

A plane carrying civilian resistance leader José Manuel Mireles has crashed in Michoacan, killing the pilot and leaving Mireles badly injured.

19 dead bodies have been found buried in a communal grave on the border of Mexico's states of Jalisco and Michoacan. Several of them showed signes of torture and mutiliation.

A Mexican drug cartel blew up nine electrical power plants in the Mexican state of Michoacan. The explosions created state-wide blackouts that allowed gunmen to torch gasoline stations.

Violent weekend leaves 17 dead in Michocan in surrounding areas.

Civilian self-defense militias in Michoacan are now disarmed, says the governor of the Mexican state. But in a June video, one militia member said the reasons why the group formed in his town had a lot to do with the inability of the government to keep them safe.

Gunmen ambushed and killed Mexican Navy Vice Admiral Carlos Miguel Salazar, in an attack presumably led by a drug cartel.

20 gang members and two police officers were killed in a fierce battle between Mexican authorities and the Knights Templar Drug cartel.