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Mexican drugs cartel claims divine right to push narcotics
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Teetotal Mexican drugs cartel claims divine right to push narcotics
July 5, 2009 - guardian.co.uk

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."

Since then, the group has spread throughout Mexico from its base in Michoacán state, and is believed to have operations in dozens of US cities.

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.

Its rapid expansions is deeply embarrassing for the government of President Felipe Calderón who made curbing the activities of the cartels a central aim of his administration when he took office in 2006. Despite the deployment of tens of thousands of troops, beginning in Michaoacán, the violence has got worse.

An unofficial count kept by the Milenio newspaper reported this week that 3,492 people were killed in the first six months of the year, up 60% on the first half on 2008 and nearly three times the number from January to June in 2007.

Last week 14 charred bodies were found in a mass grave close to where 12 hitmen died in a shootout with soldiers days earlier in the normally tranquil central state of Guanajuato. The execution-style murders continued in the usual hotspots along the northern border. The head of a decapitated local electoral official was found on a road in the southern state of Guerrero.

Calderón last week responded to growing questions over his military-focused strategy by saying: "We can either continue the struggle and accept the costs. Or we can go backwards and allow a return to the old practices of tolerance, corruption and impunity."

But some analysts see his call for patience as misguided.

Edgardo Buscaglia, an organised crime expert, said that without rooting out political corruption and cracking down on money-laundering, Calderon's offensive was doomed. "What we are seeing is an ineffective act of bravery," he said.

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Re: Mexican drugs cartel claims divine right to push narcotics [Re: veggie]
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great, so they actually think they're on a mission from god to go push drugs and murder, torture, and extort.
:nonono:

how hypocritical, but that's christianity for you. the spanish did the same, sans dope.


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Re: Mexican drugs cartel claims divine right to push narcotics [Re: piracetam]
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Yep, very good point piracetam. The Spanish raped, pillaged, and murdered most of the Aztecs and probably a lot of the Maya. They justified their thievery of gold by spreading Christianity.

Definitely sad. It's sad because Christianity, if you look at its actual New Testament and the things preached by Jesus and his ideas, there's potential for a lot of good to come out of it, yet a lot of people who claim to be Christian do not *honestly* follow these teachings. They believe that their "belief in God" is good enough to make up for all the bad things that they've done, and they don't make a conscious effort to actually become a better person. Jesus had good morals that still hold up today: avoidance of lies, not spreading hate, no murder, etc.


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"As a man who has devoted his whole life to the most clear headed science, to the study of matter, I can tell you as a result of my research about atoms this much: There is no matter as such. All matter originates and exists only by virtue of a force which brings the particle of an atom to vibration and holds this most minute solar system of the atom together. We must assume behind this force the existence of a conscious and intelligent mind. This mind is the matrix of all matter."  --Max Planck

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Re: Mexican drugs cartel claims divine right to push narcotics [Re: tyler_0_durden]
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exactly

so many people have bastardized the fundamental teachings of a peaceful/loving philosophy, and turned it into a mockery, convenient for personal gains. this is especially evident in "fundamentalist christians", what a bass-ackward bunch of dimwits.
those people should rot in their perpetual hell, so should these organized street scum hellbent on blood money.

evangelism is one of the roots of the problem, money obviously being the other


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Re: Mexican drugs cartel claims divine right to push narcotics [Re: piracetam]
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piracetam said:
great, so they actually think they're on a mission from god to go push drugs and murder, torture, and extort.
:nonono:

how hypocritical, but that's Christianity for you. the spanish did the same, sans dope.


  How can you judge Christianity because of a few idiots ?  That's the same as the marijuana community getting judged because of a few immature stoners, religion is fucked up but I'm christian and don't practice a lot of the churches bullshit ideas, but that's the people not the religion.

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Re: Mexican drugs cartel claims divine right to push narcotics [Re: tyler_0_durden]
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Very well put.

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Re: Mexican drugs cartel claims divine right to push narcotics [Re: pasucks]
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You can judge christianity and many other organized religions because they have quiet a history of persecuting and suppressing any one who goes against them.  This isn't just a few bad eggs we are talking about, this is the most powerful people in the religion who are often responsible for its crimes. That doesn't mean all christians are bad, but christianity has a lot of unnecessary bloodshed in its history

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Re: Mexican drugs cartel claims divine right to push narcotics [Re: pasucks]
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you can judge "modern" christianity because very few churches represent its true foundation.
most still follow the King James bible, an ultimately hypocritical reinterpretation of the original 'teachings'.

but it's obvious..if you tell ignorant people something long enough (especially enforced by violent coersion), they'll eventually believe it.

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