A recording leaked to the Mexican press features a senior leader of the La Familia drug cartel urging members to stand fast in the wake of the death of their figurehead and painting the criminal group as rebels with a cause.

"It had to happen one day so don't despair, this is not over," Servando Gómez Martinez, alias La Tuta, says of the death last week of the group's "spiritual leader", Nazario Moreno, also known as the Doctor. "We will stay united and we will achieve what the Doctor wanted and what he inculcated into us with so much love."

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