One of Mexico's most flamboyant and brutal drug cartel leaders was killed by police on Thursday after a two-day shootout in the western state of Michoacan. Eleven others were also killed, including five police officers.
Nazario Moreno Gonzalez, nicknamed "The Craziest", ran his La Familia cartel as a pseudo-Christian cult. Gonzalez became notorious four years ago, when he announced the gang's emergence by rolling five severed heads across the dancefloor of a local nightclub.
