Fear and Respect: On the Trail of a Mexican Drug Lord Called 'La Tuta' Thom Walker - Channel 4 News
go to original January 28, 2014

Servando "la Tuta" Gomez tells Guillermo Galdos he left teaching because it "wasn't satisfying". He now runs Mexico's notorious Knights Templar drug cartel. (Channel 4 News)

You might pass Servando "La Tuta" Gomez on the street and not look twice. But with a $2.5m bounty on his head, the charismatic leader of Mexico's Knights Templar drug cartel commands respect and fear.

As we set off that afternoon, we knew it might all come to nothing. Our plan was to meet the men behind one of the biggest Mexican drug cartels.

A group feared for its brutality and ruthlessness, whose members were being hunted down by the federal police, army, and now too by heavily armed vigilante self-defence groups who wanted to drive them out of the western state of Michoacán.

We had already made contact with his people, who helped guide us through the hillside villages to where our meeting was due to take place. Everyone there knows everyone.

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