"We are hostages to extortion demands, we are hostages of criminal groups," business chamber president Julio Almanza said ...

"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 ...

This weakness led the BLO to form pragmatic alliances with Los Zetas, the Knights Templar, and the Juarez Cartel in an effort to strike back against the Sinaloa. The BLO is likely on the ropes.

Today the Poor Knights of Christ, called Templars, are laymen and laywomen from many countries who take up the original ...

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 ...

Mexico's lucrative avocado industry has long been the target of extortion and violence by the Knights Templar cartel in the western state of Michoacan. But some residents have had enough and are ...