The arrest of nine former military personnel in Michoacán sheds light on a growing phenomenon in the region, which is ...

Before her death, Mendoza was under investigation by Mexico's Attorney General's Office for alleged ties to organized crime, ...

As Mexican drug cartels muscle in on massive avocado sales, armed civilians fight back Karol Suárez The Courier Journal 0:03 ...

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More than 100,000 people have been killed in Mexico 's drug war over the last decade. (Additional reporting by Noe Torres; Writing by David Alire Garcia and Michael O´Boyle; Editing by Simon ...

In the south, the new Jalisco New Generation cartel has spread rapidly into areas once dominated by the vicious Knights Templar, which has lost numerous leaders. The top official of the Knights ...

Hundreds of bullets belonging to members of the drug cartel La Familia at the Command Center in Mexico City, Mexico, in 2009. (Alfredo Estrella / AFP / Getty) ...

While Rosales Mendoza was in prison, the men he had trained founded their own cartel, which they called the Knights Templar. The Knights Templar, which claimed to follow in the footsteps of the ...

Matthew Heineman, a thirty-two-year-old American filmmaker, was at the airport in Michoacán, the war-torn Mexican state west of Mexico City, when he had second thoughts about returning home. His ...

Locals in Apatzingan told us that criminals once employed by the Knights Templar are now killing and robbing indiscriminately – without even the cartel’s command structure to control them.

March 9, 2014: Soldiers kill Knights Templar cartel founder Nazario "El Chayo" Moreno in the agricultural and mining state of Michoacan in the west. He had been wrongly declared dead in a clash ...

The Knights Templar and its precursor were as ruthless as any of Mexico’s numerous drug cartels. But the cartel created a cult-like, pseudo-religious mystique around its dogma and its actions ...