Mexico’s Knights Templar Seeking Less Violence, Offer to Lay Down Arms

A drug-trafficking organization active in the western state of Michoacan offered to lay down its guns if Mexico’s new president, Enrique Peña Nieto, takes effective action to curb violent crime in the state.

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Indian Community Arms Themselves Against Mexican Drug Gang

Santa Maria Urapicho, a Purepecha Indian community in western Mexico, has armed itself and is on alert to deal with threats from suspected members of the Los Caballeros Templarios drug gang, an Indian leader told Efe.

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Blog del Narco: Police Nab Juarez Cartel Leader-Jesus Valentin Nunez Lugo aka ” Square Head”
Federal police captured a top hired gun for the Juarez drug cartel in the central city of Aguascalientes, Mexico’s Public Safety Department said. Jesus Valentin Nuñez Lugo had been in charge ... Zetas undergo alleged change in leadership
[caption id="attachment_9538" align="alignright" width="300"] El Z-40 has allegedly assumed leadership of the Zetas, resulting in internal strife within the organization and prompting criticism and concern from rival drug cartels. Photo: ... Conflicting reports emerge over Mexico state intergang gun fight
Less than 24 hours after several Mexican news organizations reported a large intergang gunfight in central Mexico conflicting stories have emerged as to whether the gun battle even took place. Sunday ... 30 reportedly die in Mexico state
As many as 30 armed suspects have been killed in an apparent intergang gun battle in western Mexico state Sunday, according to several Mexican news accounts. A news account published on ... Mexico Deploys 400 Additional Officers to Michoacan
An additional 400 Federal Police officers have been deployed in the western Mexican state of Michoacan, bringing to 600 the number of officers sent to the area to fight drug ... Regional Boss of La Familia Michoacana Drug Cartel Arrested
Mexican authorities have arrested the purported head of the once-powerful La Familia Michoacana drug cartel in the eastern region of Mexico state, prosecutors said. Juan Carlos Muñoz Vargas, 36, was detained ... Michoacan: More “narcobanners” to Sabritas
The organization known as The Knights Templar made public this Saturday, new blankets through which reiterates its respect for the work of all national and foreign companies, but also warns ... Narcolaboratorios destroyed in Guerrero
Ixtapa, Zihuatanejo. - During a visit by members of the Army Corps of Mexico from the Naval Sector Ixtapa, were located and destroyed four narcolaboratorios of synthetic drugs. A communications repeater ...
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