Detained Narco States La Familia May Surrender

According to the Associated Press, a captured narco named Sergio Moreno Godinez (aka Yellow) stated that the head of the La Familia Michoacan has had enough of the drug trade, and is considering ending the cartel.

Moreno, who was a major trafficker for La Familia in the port city of Lazaro Cardenas, said that Nazario Moreno Gonzalez (aka La Tuta) is having difficulty competing against other cartels, and is constantly losing ground to federal forces.

La Familia began as a vigilante group, with the overarching goal of protecting the people of Michoacan from immorally vicious narcos. Their first major act of retribution took place in 2006, when members of La Familia tossed severed heads into a discoteca in the mountain town of Uruapan.

Since then, La Familia has become one of the most powerful cartels in Mexico. According to the Associated Press, they are Mexico's main trafficker of Methamphetamine. Member of La Familia are bound by an honor code, and are prohibited from consuming (but not trafficking) narcotics. La Tuta requires each member to posses a "bible"of sorts (that he wrote) which explains the moral beliefs and over arching goals of the cartel. Despite their supposed "morals," La Familia is one of the most violent cartels in all of Mexico.

Yet that may no longer be the case, as La Familia dropped letters through out towns and sent e-mails to numerous journalists stating that they would be willing to disband if federal police promise to act honestly and fight to the death to defend the state. Those statements, coupled with the confession of Moreno, lead most government officials to believe that La Familia is nearing its end. Which cartel will take their place though, is an entirely different matter, and is of great concern, since that region has been fought bitterly over by two of the more infamous cartels in Mexico--The Sinaloa Cartel, and Los Zetas.