Mexico: Public Protest and Meth-Precursor Shipments in Michoacan

The July 17 seizure of a large quantity of methamphetamine precursor chemicals in Queretaro, four days after a public protest was organized by the Knights Templar (KT) in Apatzingan, could point to an emerging diversionary tactic in Michoacan. STRATFOR remains curious about the sequence of events, and we expect to see more instances when attention is drawn to a particular city off the beaten path, followed closely by the discovery of valuable commodities in some other part of the KT area of operations.