"I'm from Michoacan, one of the states that has suffered most from emigration, " he said.
Lazaro Cardenas, the governor of Michoacan, gave a searing speech calling for a change in direction.
At one polling station in Mexico City, a 46-year-old attorney from the state of Michoacan was fuming.
Louis hotel who says she has a hard time finding work in the western Mexican state of Michoacan.
Many of the Mexicans who leave their homeland for the United States come from the state of Michoacan.
She said it was some of the worst violence to hit Michoacan state.
During clashes with federal police in December, suspected members of La Familia set trucks and buses ablaze on highways in Michoacan.
Next month, officials will open trade-in centers there and elsewhere in Michoacan state where residents can receive tablets, netbooks or money.
At least 2, 000 people have fled their homes in Michoacan state, in western Mexico, amid several days of fighting between gangs.
Michoacan has seen a surge in violence as a drug cartel calling itself the Knights Templar fights rival gangs and the security forces.
BBC: Mexico government says drug-related murders down by 14%
The conference in Michoacan was designed to turn those ideas into action, not only in Mexico, but in other countries around the world.
In 2007, Sergio Gomez, the singer of band K-Paz de la Sierra was kidnapped after a concert in the western state of Michoacan.
Then, in mid-2012 criminals in Michoacan carried out a series of arson attacks on trucks owned by Sabritas, a local snack food subsidiary of PepsiCo.
The signs appeared mainly in Michoacan, La Familia's stronghold, but a few were reported to have been seen in Guerrero, security consulting firm Stratfor said.
In 2011 and 2012, problems originating in the states of Guerrero, where Acapulco is located, and the state of Michoacan, to the north, began seeping north into Jalisco.
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The government announcement came as police and gunmen engaged in a series of armed clashes in the western state of Michoacan in which at least 14 people were killed.
BBC: Mexico government says drug-related murders down by 14%
The authorities say they believe members of the cartel have retreated into the mountains of Michoacan and have taken the body of Mr Moreno, known as "the Craziest One", with them.
Last weekend, five Sabritas distribution centers were set alight and about 40 delivery trucks were destroyed in the states of Michoacan and Guanajuato, the site of a turf war between cartels.
The new alert, issued late last week, urges Americans to defer nonessential travel in regions where drug-related violence has surged, including the border state of Tamaulipas and the central state of Michoacan.
But reports of violence can be overblown, the leader of an expatriate group in Mexico said, describing his trip last month to a butterfly sanctuary in Michoacan, a stronghold of Mexico's La Familia cartel.
Uruapan, in the western state of Michoacan, made headlines in 2006 when members of a drug cartel -- La Familia Michoacana -- hurled five decapitated heads of rival gang members onto a dance floor there.
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