Nazario Moreno, nicknamed “The Craziest One”, who headed La Familia (“The Family”), a mafia outfit based in the state of Michoacán

leader of one of Mexico’s most feared mobs was shot dead. The victim was Nazario Moreno, nicknamed “The Craziest One”, who headed La Familia (“The Family”), a mafia outfit based in the state of Michoacán. Mr Moreno, author of a spiritual self-help book known as the Family Bible, was tracked down after organising a lavish party that the police got wind of.
His death on December 9th rounds off a year during which senior members of almost every big drug gang in Mexico have been locked up or killed. A year ago Arturo Beltrán Leyva, whose sprawling empire once infiltrated the American embassy, was shot dead by marines near Mexico City. A month later Víctor Mendoza, a senior member of the Zetas, was killed by hit men from the Gulf cartel. The Gulf’s co-leader, Antonio Cárdenas, was killed by the army and marines in November. In July Ignacio Coronel, who was third in command of the Sinaloa mob, suffered a similar fate."

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