"El Mencho" began violently seizing other gangs' turf and was able to expand rapidly in western Mexico's Michoacan state — where the Knights Templar cartel was deteriorating. What's more ...

Mexican authorities recently found five decapitated human bodies with severed heads in an area notorious for gang turf ...

an area plagued by the Knights Templar cartel. In response to the vigilantes' takeover of Paracauro, the Michaocan governor told press that the police will begin attempting to "eradicate" the ...

In Michoacán, the land that saw the birth of Nemesio Oseguera Cervantes, the Mencho, leader of the Jalisco New Generation Cartel (CJNG ... Family and The Knights Templar. In 2010, as head ...