La Familia first emerged in the s gained as an anti-crime and vigilante group. Yet over time, La Familia deepened its roots in the fertile mountainous region of the Sierra Madre del Sur, where they have developed the infrastructure and capacity to produce crystal meth, marijuana,cocaine, and opium poppy plants. According to the National Methamphetamine Threat Assessment, released by the National Drug Intelligence Center in , meth is most pervasive in the Midwest where it is a challenge to local law enforcement and public health.
Meth can be sold in the U. About: La Familia Michoacana. Die Organisation entstand, nachdem sie sich vom Golf-Kartell abgespalten hatte. Am Formerly allied to the Gulf Cartel—as part of Los Zetas—it split off in He carried a "bible" of his own sayings and insisted that his army of traffickers and hitmen avoid using the narcotics they produce and sell.
The cartel is known to produce large amounts of methamphetamine in clandestine laboratories in Michoacan. At this point, it was present mostly in el Estado de Mexico. Hoewel zij een van de recentste spelers is in de Mexicaanse drugsoorlog gold zij als een van de machtigste kartels van het land. De wortels van La Familia gaan terug tot de jaren tachtig. De leden van La Familia werden in het Golfkartel getraind samen met Los Zetas, de beruchte paramilitaire tak van het kartel.
Its hit-men said they had the "divine right" to kill and dismember their enemies, which included members of rival gangs. In , he organised an armed assault on a maximum security prison to spring a jailed ally from the Gulf cartel.
His men managed to free 25 inmates, but Rosales Mendoza was arrested on suspicion of masterminding the jailbreak and spent the next decade in prison. 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 Christian military order of the Middle Ages of the same name, soon became one of the main targets for the Mexican government.
Police say the cartel has been dismantled after all four of its main leaders were arrested or killed in the past two tears. The security forces feared that Rosales Mendoza was trying to re-organise his drug-trafficking empire after his release from prison in Michoacan: Mexico's failed state? The Familia was then largely supplanted by a splinter group known as the Caballeros Templarios Knights Templar , which has also been seriously weakened in recent years.
However, the criminal group is very much still active today. Michoacan has long been home to drug traffickers and drug production, with areas where mostly poorer farmers cultivate marijuana and poppy, the raw material for heroin. A group known as El Milenio, an ally of the Tijuana Cartel , controlled the Michoacan area at the end of the s.
But a small group of lieutenants rebelled. There are two versions of what happened next: in the first, the lieutenants reached out to Gulf Cartel to overthrow their bosses; in the second, the Gulf Cartel sent the Zetas in to take over themselves. In either case, by , the Zetas were the new power in the region. Membership Believed to be largely defunct.
Once reportedly had 4, operatives in Michoacan alone. Leadership Hector Garcia, alias "El Player," is considered to be a top commander. Criminal Activities Drug trafficking, extortion, kidnapping, assasination, racketeering.
Criminal Activities Drug transit, kidnapping, domestic drug sales, drug production, human trafficking, money laundering. The locals saw them as repressive outsiders, and the resentment increased when the Zetas expanded their business into methamphetamine production. The Familia Michoacana then emerged as a self-styled vigilante group, turning against the Zetas and attacking addicts and dealers of methamphetamine, the drug that is now its biggest moneymaker.
The Familia was proudly regionalist and claimed to have won public support in western Michoacan, where in some ways the group, at its peak, acted as the de facto state.
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