Mexico - Feb 27
Mexican state police arrested Servando Gómez Martínez, the leader of the Knights Templar, a vicious drug cartel centered in the Mexican state of Michoacan, this past Friday. Also known as La Tuta, the drug-lord used his rhetoric and experience as a teacher to run an incredibly lucrative and violent cartel with connections throughout the corrupt local governments. The federal government of Mexico hopes that this arrest would reduce violence in Michoacan. Source: El País