World & Nation
MEXICO CITY -- You only die twice -- or so it seemed for Nazario Moreno Gonzalez, leader of Mexico’s notorious Knights Templar drug cartel.
March 9, 2014
Beltran Leyva cartel figure and a Michoacan mayor arrested in Mexico
April 16, 2014
MEXICO CITY — Mexico’s drug and corruption crackdown intensified this week with the arrests of the reputed second in command of the Beltran Leyva drug cartel and the mayor of a Michoacan city once controlled by the Knights Templar criminal gang.
MEXICO CITY -- Mexico’s attorney general said Thursday that he has proof that some of the arms being used by the vigilante “self-defense” groups of Michoacan state were supplied by a drug cartel, the Jalisco New Generation, according to news reports.
Jan. 30, 2014
Mexico official says some vigilante arms supplied by drug cartel
Four human heads are found in Michoacan state, the latest indication that the Knights Templar drug cartel may be reasserting itself in areas where federal forces and vigilantes seek to take control.
Feb. 6, 2014
Jan. 19, 2014
The government says it will take control of security matters in the ‘hot land’ region. But the groups vow to keep fighting the Knights Templar drug cartel.
Jan. 13, 2014
Jan. 17, 2014
MEXICO CITY — It is known here as the “cucaracha effect,” the possibility that a heavy government crackdown in one part of Mexico will simply send the bad guys scurrying off, cockroach-like, to some other place and cause new trouble.
Jan. 21, 2014