Jose de Jesus Mendez: 'The Monkey' drug boss who ran Mexico's cult cartel
His nickname turned out to be richly deserved. When armed police presented Jose de Jesus Mendez at a press conference in Mexico City yesterday, the drug kingpin was revealed to be in possession of both a fat neck and a simian scowl. That's presumably why he was known as "El Chango", or "The Monkey".
Mendez was the leader of La Familia Michoacana, among half a dozen large criminal organisations which have fought for years over one of Mexico's most lucrative industries, the $38bn-a-year (£23.6bn) business of shifting cocaine from South America to US consumers.
The circumstances of his arrest were rare, given the bloody nature of the Mexican Government's ongoing "war on drugs", which has resulted in almost 40,000 deaths in the past four years. Federal police who swooped on "El Chango's" hideout in the central state of Aguascalientes arrested him without a shot fired.
Mendez is the second head of La Familia to be brought to book. In December, the organisation's founder, Nazario Moreno Gonzalez, known as "El Mas Loco" ("The Craziest") was killed by security forces during a two-day battle which filled the once-sleepy city called Apatzigan with tanks and burning cars.
"With this capture, what was left of the command structure of this criminal organisation is destroyed," trumpeted a government spokesman, describing Mendez as, "the last remaining head of a criminal group responsible for homicides, kidnappings, extortion, corruption and even cowardly attacks on the authorities and civilian population".
Felipe Calderon, the Mexican President who has devoted much of his time in office to cracking down on the drug trade, used his Twitter account to describe the detention of a man who had a $2.5m price tag on his head a "big blow" against organised crime.
Mendez is now likely to be charged with shipping tonnes of cocaine to the US, along with large volumes of methamphetamine and marijuana. With the help of weapons purchased in America (which has the developed world's most relaxed gun laws), his private army was also able to commit murder, kidnapping, extortion.
His arrest, like that of any major cartel chief, is unlikely to stem the flow of drugs through Mexico: the stratospheric profit margins on offer to traffickers (reported to be about 3,000 percent) mean there is never a shortage of candidates willing to do battle over newly vacant turf.
But it may represent the beginning of the end for La Familia, a unique sort of drug cartel which was as famous for its cult-like mentality and loosely Christian theology as it was for the occasional acts of extreme violence that it used to maintain a grip on its territory along Mexico's strategically important western coast.
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