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'Family Values' of Mexico Drug Gang


World  (tags: Mexico, drugs, gangs, drug cartels, violence, corruption, crime, death )

Dee
- 24 days ago - news.bbc.co.uk
They decapitate, torture, and extort. Then they pray, and donate to charity. The "Familia" cartel is perhaps the most extreme example of the paradoxical enemy which Mexico faces as it tries to defeat organised crime.
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Dee C. (504)
Sunday November 1, 2009, 11:58 am
"It is a fight which would be much easier if the cartels were simply maverick gangs on the fringe of society.

But they are, in many areas, part of society.

"La Familia was originally a social structure. And in many ways it still is," says a former Mexico deputy attorney general and organised crime expert, Prof Samuel Gonzalez Ruiz.

The group is believed to have originated in the 1980s as a loose self-protecting coalition between marijuana and opium farmers in the state of Michoacan. "

Read more at site..
 

Rhonda Maness (450)
Sunday November 1, 2009, 2:38 pm
Thanks Dee
 

Chaz Gaily Berlusconi (251)
Monday November 2, 2009, 5:24 am
Thannxxx Dee Dee... it has been said many will come in my name sayeth the Lord.. but few will be chosen.. it is not by good deeds alone, but by living a life pleasing to God.. so these hypocrites have already choosen the wide path... that leads to hell and have missed the narrow road that leads to heaven... few find it.. murderers and drug runners have no place with God.. makes me sick the way they abuse the name of God ... they do this to make themselves look good
 

Past Member (0)
Monday November 2, 2009, 1:42 pm
The bad part about this is the places they donate to take the blood money, same as the Catholic Church took mob money. Maybe they expect absolution.
 
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