MEXICO´S DRUG CARTELS: LA FAMILIA MICHOACANA

Source: BBC News-Latin America & Caribbean.

By Gundhramns Hammer
December 5, 2014
Select, paste & translate

No one ever imagined that one day Mexico was going to be known not only for its mariachis but also for its cruelest drug cartels.

Freddy Krueger, the bogeyman of the Nightmare on Elm Street movie, is a roockie compared to the demons found within the Mexican drug cartels.

People´s blood gets churned and congealed upon seeing the macabre real life crimes carried out by members of these Mexican mafia groups.

At the top, the horror list is lead by La Familia Michoacana, one of the main Mexican drug cartels.

The following document will put you on the track and give a lot of information on these narcos:

Quote:

"La Familia Michoacana or as it is also known, La Fa­milia, has emerged as one of Mexico’s strangest and most grotesque drug cartels. Its leaders—Nazario “El Chayo” Moreno González and José de Jesús “El Chan­go” Méndez Vargas—insist they are doing the Lord’s work when they discipline teenagers for wearing long hair or spraying graffiti on colonial buildings in the Michoacán state capital of Morelia. However, this syndicate is not content with trying to civilize young people. It captures enemies, who may belong to Los Zetas or another competing cartel, and tortures, dis­members, and decapitates them—often leaving heads in public venues as a warning." [Douglas C. Lovelace, Jr., Strategic Studies Institute]

Read the full report: 

La Familia: Implications for U.S.-Mexican Security by George W. Grayson (2010). The Strategic Studies Institute, Carlisle, PA, USA. 111 p. Click HERE.