Thread: Mexico cites breakdown in La Familia cartel

Mexico cites breakdown in La Familia cartel

Published December 31, 2010

MEXICO CITY – Mexico's federal police say the once-fearsome La Familia drug cartel has been "completely dismembered" and has broken down into small groups that commit robberies to pay their members.

Federal police official Luis Cardenas Palomino says that the breakdown of the organization was hastened by the Dec. 9 death of cartel leader Nazario Moreno, nicknamed "The Craziest One".

He says the remaining groups are "completely disorganized."

Cardenas made the comments Friday at a news conference announcing the arrest of the leader of one of the remaining groups, a man known as "The Mustache."

La Familia has dominated the western state of Michoacan for several years, and has launched bloody ambushes of federal police.

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Mexico has some of the strictest gun control laws in the entire world. Only one legal gun shop in the entire country and a ton of hoops to jump through before making a purchase.

Yet these uberstrict gun regulations haven't curbed violence one lick. In fact, they've aggrevated it since criminals know they're unlikely to meet resistence by any armed, law-abiding citizens.