Los Caballeros Templarios (LCT, ‘Templar Knights’), a splinter of the Familia Michoacana gang, has been shown up as having no intention of honouring its recently announced withdrawal from criminal activities in Michoacán and leaving it up to the government and the law-enforcement agencies to “maintain the peace”. It had said that it would only continue to act against incursions from outsiders — an allusion to the growing presence of the Cartel de Jalisco Nueva Generación (CJNG), currently an ally of the Sinaloa/Pacífico gang. However, the LCT is still heavily involved in extortion across the state, targeting isolated rural communities (mainly…