MEXICO-VIOLENCE-MICHOACAN

"Aparato", a member of the so-called self-defense groups, poses for a photo with a LAW rocket launcher in Apatzingan, Michoacan state, Mexico, on February 12, 2014. February 24, 2014 commemorates the first anniversary of the uprising of the self-defense groups. Mexican federal forces have taken over police duties in some 20 towns in the restive state of Michoacan, where vigilante groups are fighting a drug cartel. Michoacan, where much of the population lives in poverty, has become the most pressing security issue facing Mexico President Enrique Pena Nieto, who inherited a bloody war on drugs. AFP PHOTO/ALFREDO ESTRELLA (Photo by ALFREDO ESTRELLA / AFP) (Photo by ALFREDO ESTRELLA/AFP via Getty Images)