Servando 'La Tuta' Gomez: Mexico's New Most Wanted Drug Lord Loves the Press Jan-Albert Hootsen - Vocativ
go to original May 1, 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)

Mexico’s security forces seem to be on a roll. Over the last few months, they’ve captured the world’s most wanted drug lord, killed a capo who many already thought was dead and dealt a series of blows to one of the country’s most notorious cartels.

So why can’t they capture the only drug lord out there who regularly gives interviews, loves appearing on television and, according to some, can be found in a small town simply by knocking on his front door?

His name is Servando Gómez, but many here in Mexico call him “La Tuta,” which means “the teacher.” Gómez was among the original founders of La Familia Michoacana, a now-defunct drug cartel that has been reshaped into another equally violent group by the name of The Knights Templar. Mexican authorities have placed a bounty of $2.3 million on his head. And with good reason.

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