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'Family values' of Mexico drug gang



By Stephen Gibbs
BBC News, Mexico City

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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One curious feature of the organisation is that, according to Mexican intelligence documents, it strongly discourages its members from consuming alcohol or drugs, and has a quasi-religious ideology.

The group's alleged spiritual leader, Nazario Moreno Gonzalez, also known as "El Mas Loco", or "the maddest one" is understood to have published and distributed his own bible, based on the macho Christian writing of contemporary American author John Eldredge.

"It is clearly an organisational tool," says anthropologist and analyst Dr Elio Masferrer, of the group's religious faith.

"It does not matter whether or not the leaders believe in it".

Notes, signed by La Familia, are often left on the mutilated bodies of their rivals, indicating that they are victims of "divine justice".

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