While many of the state secretariats of public security in Mexico are indeed led by military men, I still find it noteworthy that Governor Leonel Godoy named a retired general as the replacement for Minerva Bautista, who famously survived a 2700-bullet assassination attempt last April (her battered armored car, a Jeep Grand Cherokee, can actually be seen displayed at the armored car maker Protecto Glass' workshop in Mexico City), and apparently decided to step down.
Large parts of Michoacán such as the port of Lazaro Cárdenas and the Tierra Caliente zone are certainly ground zero in the "drug war,", and the threat posed by the armed mafias is clearly huge, as illustrated by the massive yet fortunately failed attack on the state's top security official. However, members of the PRD, to which Godoy belongs, have been among the most critical of the militarization of security, yet clearly Godoy has as come to the conclusion that state security is best left in the hands of the military.
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