driving in Michoacan

Driving on the toll roads are no problem- just Federal Police and military everywhere. On the coast highway police had a car pulled over and they were completely searching it. In the villages and Morelia there were armed trucks with machine guns on the cabs. Thursday along the aqueduct a demonstration was getting ready to begin and there were over 100 riot control Police with their shields lined up along the street. Our guide told us it was because of all the violence in the state. We did not feel unsafe while touring Morelia and the small villages. Tuesday going to the butterfly reserve, we were not stopped once.