Mexico Says It Has Killed a Drug Lord Who Was Reported Dead Years Ago Dave Graham - Thomson Reuters
go to original March 10, 2014

Mexico has confirmed the death of the leader of the Knights Templar cartel. The government declared Nazario Moreno Gonzalez dead in 2010, but his body was never found. Now authorities say he's been killed in the western state of Michoacan. Al Jazeera's Adam Raney reports. (Al Jazeera English)

A Mexican drug lord who had been falsely reported dead more than three years ago was killed in a shootout with federal forces in western Mexico early on Sunday, the government said.

Nazario Moreno led a powerful criminal gang that has ravaged the western state of Michoacan, and was known as "El Mas Loco," or "The Craziest One." He had been reported killed by the government in a firefight in December 2010, but his body was never recovered and he was widely believed to be still alive.

Government security spokesman Alejandro Rubido said after security forces discovered Moreno was still alive, he was tracked down and found to be the undisputed leader of the main drug cartel operating in the area, The Knights Templar.

"This morning, he was intercepted," Rubido said. "When he was asked to turn himself in, he opened fire and was killed."

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