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Mexican Drug Cartel Chief Believed Killed

MEXICO CITY -- The eccentric leader of the brutal La Familia drug cartel is believed to have been killed in a shootout during two days of fighting between federal police and gunmen that terrified civilians across a western Mexican state, the government said Friday.The death of Nazario Moreno Gonzalez -- nicknamed "The Craziest One" -- would be a major blow to a drug cartel that burst into national prominence four years ago by rolling severed heads into a nightclub and declaring that its mission was to protect Michoacan state from rival gangs and petty criminals.Police have received information that the 40-year-old Gonzalez -- also known as "El Chayo" or "The Doctor" -- was killed in clash Thursday between cartel gunmen and federal police, said Alejandro Poire, the government spokesman for security issues.Cartel gunmen have been fleeing with their causalities, and police believe that Moreno was among the dead, Poire said. He said police recovered the bodies of three other suspected La F...

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