"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.

Trujillo Diaz's father had described in a sworn declaration to the board how gang members of the Knights Templar drug cartel had kidnapped him in 2014 and mentioned they were looking for Trujillo Diaz ...

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 ...