Uruapan

In October, a journalist was shot dead in the violence-plagued city of Uruapan.

There are two artists from Michoacán there, Artie Rodriguez and Gloria Felix Orozco, who lived in Uruapan.

Life in the cities affected by the violence - Apatzingan, Buenavista and Uruapan - is anything but normal.

Life in the cities affected by the violence — Apatzingan, Buenavista and Uruapan — is anything but normal.

Then he joins up with other trucks waiting for a convoy of blue-and-white state police trucks - they recently changed their name to Civil Guard - to start out for Uruapan.