Community | July 06, 2009 | 21 comments

Mexican drug cartel claims divine right to push narcotics

source: http://www.guardian.co.uk/world/2009/jul/05/la-familia-mexico-drug-cartel

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The rival cartels battling for control of Mexico's multibillion-dollar narcotics trade are as notorious for their consumption of drugs as their use of extreme violence. But the fastest-growing faction in the country's bloody drug wars is a quasi-religious sect that celebrates family values and keeps its members teetotal.

According to a steady leak of intelligence documents to the Mexican press, La Familia recruits members from rehab clinics and forbids them from drink and drugs. Advancement within the organisation depends as much on regular attendance at prayer meetings as on target practice.

The cartel's leader, known as El Mas Loco, the Maddest One, preaches his organisation's divine right to eliminate enemies and insists the group only traffic drugs outside their home territory. According to local press reports, he carries a "bible" of his own sayings and insists that his army of traffickers and hitmen avoid the narcotics they sell.

"La Familia uses religion as a way of forcing cohesion among its members," said Raúl Benítez, an expert on Mexican trafficking organisations. "They are building a new kind of disciplined army that we have never seen here before. It makes them more dangerous."

The first hints that something unusual was afoot came in November 2006 with the appearance of a newspaper advert in which La Familia formally announced its existence.

"Some of our strategies are sometimes strong but this is the only way to impose order for the good of the people," the advert said. "Maybe some people won't understand at first, but they will."

From trading in cocaine, marijuana and methamphetamine, La Familia has diversified into kidnapping, armed robbery and counterfeiting. It is also alleged to have financed and supported dozens of local politicians. Once a local partner of the powerful Gulf cartel, La Familia is now considered one of the country's five largest trafficking organisations
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21 comments // Mexican drug cartel claims divine right to push narcotics

  • jkudurog45
  • keithponder
  • regularrf
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      regularrf  

    • We can end all this bullshit if we just make it legal. there will be no drug dealers or prisons full of people who use or sell.all the cash will be back in circulation and the people that spend all their welfare money and food
      stamps on drugs can eat and pay their rent. If it is legal
      we need someone to control the prices not the government, someone like a drug store chain.Not like California's pot shops they charge more than dealers.

    • 2 years ago
  • StandaboveUnderstand
  • StandaboveUnderstand
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      StandaboveUnderstand  

    • Mexican drug cartel my ass. Why is it that thousands of tons of drugs make it over the borders everyday. But the Taliban cant sneak one one hundred pound bomb over the same border? This is why the US is trying to shut the border down and point fingers at Mexico . So no one asks how the hell have we have been safe for so long but still can find any drug you want in any bar in the US if you stay till midnight. The neo-cons do a great job with keeping tiny bombs out but cant stop tons of drugs? God help us we are all fool.

    • 2 years ago
  • nazbags
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      nazbags  

    • I too would be very interested in reading this so called bible. This sort of reminds me in a way of whitey bulger, a man who pretty much singlehandedly supplied Boston with drugs but never used himself

    • 2 years ago
  • Eleganza
  • kennymotown
  • outtheinside
  • SHAWN_RITTIMAN
  • el_chivo
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      el_chivo  

    • In a religious society, power makes you think like that. Same was the case in Colombia in the cartel eras. Is the fever caused by power. La verdad es que si están locos.

    • 2 years ago
  • GodsnLiberals
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      GodsnLiberals  

    • all of this to control the mind and soul of the 'DRUG CONSUMING' public...

      THERE YOU GO FOLKS..YOUR NEW GODS..

      if you disobey..they will not deliver your "medicine"..

      a drugged society is the best society to control

    • 2 years ago
  • davesarush
  • Mikeysfake1
  • bluestranger
  • pjacobs51
  • krush_productions
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      krush_productions  

    • A sober cartel? Give me a break. Do they hire special non-affiliate drug testers to check the purity of their traffic? Really curious to read El Mas Loco's "bible", It's excellent to read the works of men who view themselves as gods, real works of art, all that narcissistic yum yum stuff.

    • 2 years ago
  • neocongo
  • proxstoner
  • bansheewail
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