La Familia Michoacana was a Mexican drug cartel which was formed as a vigilante group in the 1980s in Michoacan, Mexico by Carlos Rosales Mendoza. However, the group would eventually become involved with the sale of cocaine in southern Mexico, and its second leader Nazario Moreno Gonzalez was well-known for preaching his "divine right" to eliminate enemies, giving money to the poor, and having his men avoid using their own drugs. In 2010, the LFM offered to surrender to President Felipe Calderon, but the government refused to negotiate with them. LFM controlled much of Michoacan's politics until 2 November 2011, by which point its leadership had been wiped out; they were either dead or in jail, and the Knights Templar Cartel replaced LFM.
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LFM territory (green) in 2010