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Jose de Jesus Mendez Vargas, aka "El Chango"/the monkey...a leader of the meth manufacturing La Familia Michoacana narco gang... wanted with a $2.5mn reward on his head...was captured in Aguascalientes state...without a struggle.
La Familia made a spectacular debut in 2006.. throwing severed heads into a nightclub.
Experts predict that La Familia, a ruthless and cult-like gang...will undergo a power struggle... even as it battles the fierce Los Zetas and a splinter group called the Knights Templar...for control of its territories.
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