| Sumario: | This article analyzes the issue of violence and the emergence of community self-defense forces in Michoacán, México. The analysis focuses on the emergence of these groups in the Tierra Caliente and the Meseta Purépecha regions. These forces emerged to defend their territories and obtain greater secutiry and justice in a context of insecurity and violence which is the result of the illicit activities of organized crime in the region. We analyze the linkage between structural economic transformation in these regions and the emergence of the new strategies used by organized crime. These changes have altered the equilibriumin in the local order between illegality, the State and community, which has permitted the emergence of community self-defense forces.
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