Mexican drug cartel claims divine right to push narcotics
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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- bansheewail
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The Mexican Taliban.
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- bansheewail
- 4 months ago
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Mexico's version of the Christian Coalition with El Mas Loco as Newt Gingrich.
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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.
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- krush_productions
- 4 months ago
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Drugs for God, now that's a new twist on religious extremism.
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Manifest Destiny anyone? Religious doctrines are scary, regardles of what they are trying to sell.
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- bluestranger
- 4 months ago
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I want to see a bigger version of the map in the picture.
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- Mikeysfake1
- 4 months ago
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well as long as God says its okay......
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- davesarush
- 4 months ago
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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
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- GodsnLiberals
- 4 months ago
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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.
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interesting post... I had read about the Gulf and Sinaloa cartels but hadn't heard of this one... thanks for sharing!
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Don't drink the Holy Water!!!
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- SHAWN_RITTIMAN
- 4 months ago
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they have no divine right....
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yeah.. bansheewail - please post the link to where you found that picture - for my curiosity and fact finding..
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- outtheinside
- 4 months ago
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Legalize and free your minds.
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- kennymotown
- 4 months ago
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Reminiscent of Micheal Corleone attending the baptism of his sisters baby while his rivals are being exterminated.
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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
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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.
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- StandaboveUnderstand
- 4 months ago
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Stop pointing fingers at Mexico when its us. Some of us love drugs and some of us love drug wars. both sides needs drugs to keep going.
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- StandaboveUnderstand
- 4 months ago
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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. -
Divine Right must mean our government's permission.
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- keithponder
- 4 months ago
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hmm.. this isn't the first time religion has been used to control people...the learning curve is a flat line.
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- jkudurog45
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