Knights Templar Cartel

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Los Caballeros Templarios

Founded	December 2010 by Nazario Moreno Gonzalez and Servando Gomez Martinez
Founding location	Michoacán, Mexico
Years active	December 2010– September 2017
Territory	Michoacán, Mexico[1]
Ethnicity	Mexican
Criminal activities	Drug trafficking, arms trafficking, kidnapping, extortion, racketeering, murder, robbery, assault, counterfeiting, money laundering.[2][3]
Allies	Gulf Cartel Beltrán-Leyva Cartel Sinaloa Cartel
Rivals	Jalisco New Generation Cartel Juarez Cartel MS-13 Los Zetas Independent Civilian vigilante and Militia groups Gente Nueva La Familia Michoacana[4]

The Knights Templar Cartel (Spanish: Los Caballeros Templarios,^[5][6] pronounced [los kaβaˈʝeɾos temˈplarjos]) was a Mexican criminal organization originally composed of the remnants of La Familia Michoacana drug cartel based in the Mexican State of Michoacán.^[7][8]

The Knights Templar Cartel used to indoctrinate its operatives to "fight and die" for the cartel. Before its collapse, the cartel took full control of the now defunct La Familia Michoacana operations in states including Michoacán, Guerrero, the state of Mexico, and Morelos.^{[citation needed]}