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MEXICO CITY — The U.S. State Department is warning Americans to stay away from President Felipe Calderon’s home state of Michoacan, where drug cartel members killed 18 federal agents last month.
The alert issued Thursday does not recommend against traveling to Mexico but says recent violence has prompted the U.S. Embassy to urge Americans to delay unnecessary travel to Michoacan and the border state of Chihuahua, where two Americans were abducted and killed in July.
The department says Americans traveling in those areas should exercise extreme caution.
Drug violence has killed more than 11,000 people since Calderon launched his nationwide crackdown on organized crime.
