Significance: Castillo had faced increasingly fierce criticism for acting like a surrogate governor, with opposition political parties arguing that this was damaging for democracy, especially in the run-up to gubernatorial and state congress elections in Michoacán on 7 June. The interior minister, Miguel Ángel Osorio Chong, made the announcement, praising Castillo’s achievements since he assumed the newly created post this time last year. While Castillo did preside over the restoration of a semblance of order in Michoacán, federal forces have still not succeeded in tracking down the leader of the drug trafficking organisation (DTO) Los Caballeros Templarios (LCT), Servando ‘La Tuta’ Gómez Martínez; the number of homicides increased last year; and the incorporation of the vigilante ‘self-defence groups’ into the so-called Fuerza Rural (FR) has not been an unqualified success.
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