Development: On 9 March Mexico’s national public security system (SNSP) confirmed the death of Nazario ‘El Chayo’ Moreno González, one of the founding leaders of the criminal gang Los Caballeros Templarios (LCT), in a shootout with federal security forces in Michoacán. Significance: Moreno’s death is being touted as another victory for the federal government led by President Enrique Peña Nieto in its efforts to restore the rule of law in the troubled state of Michoacán. The inability of the previous administration, led by former president Felipe Calderón (2006-2012), to weaken the LCT gave rise to the current security crisis in…