The knights templar cabelleros templarios emerged in march 2011. In what follows, i focus on the caballeros templarios knights. Retorcimientos del bien en cierta violencia templaria dialnet. Like their predecessors, the knights templar cast themselves as a selfdefense movement engaged in a struggle with mexicos larger criminal cartels on behalf of the michaocan population, and frequently employ religious imagery in their public communiques. Anunciaron publicamente su aparicion en marzo del 2011.
This thesis will show how, through the use of a powerful narrative, the caballeros templarios were able to supplant both rival cartels and legitimate government authorities. Archived from the original pdf on 11 september 2011. The caballeros templarios, or knights templar, a quasireligious drug cartel, controls much of mexicos state of michoacan. Avocados and the mexican drug cartels hidden history. Areas of influence of major mexican transnational criminal. Theyre being hunted down with the help of a more well known cartel we see on the headlines more often than not.
Caballeros templarios are seen as a nuisance by the other cartels with connections within the mexican govt. Governor of michoacan has the audacity to still play incorruptible hero. Mexico s knight templar and code of conduct implications. But as calderon leaves office, the reality of life in tierra caliente hot land offers a stark rebuke to his strategy. The material culture of the cartel is similar to that found among masonic york rite templars. Mexicos outofcontrol criminal market brookings institution. Similar emblems, robes, swords and banners can be found among both organizations. The knights templar cabelleros templarios emerged in march 2011 as a splinter group of the oncemighty familia michoacana. Extreme barbarism, a death cult, and holy warriors in mexico core. After a period of vicious street fighting, a group that called itself the caballeros templarios, the. Mexico drug war continues to rage in region where president.
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