Cartel deals drugs, violence - and religious advice
APATZINGAN, Mexico - As the leader of one of Mexico’s most ruthless criminal gangs, Nazario Moreno Gonzalez is the mastermind of hair-raising brutality in his native Michoacan state. He also would like the world to know that he has a pious, loving and huggy-kissy side, and so he’s penned a booklet titled “Thoughts.”
“If you want to say I love you!’ to those who surround you and to your friends, say it today,” the drug lord exhorts his readers.
In the 104-page booklet, which was published this year, he offers advice on personal empowerment, Christian living and proper deportment.
“Manners are a way of showing respect for others,” he writes. “If you don’t have them, don’t expect to be respected.”
If it seems bizarre for the leader of a drug gang that beheads or quarters its enemies to offer advice on Christian living, well, it may be. However, the criminal gang known as La Familia Michoacana is a pseudo-Christian posse that mixes zeal and inspiring slogans in its pronouncements. Its members are ordered to study the Bible and pray the rosary, even as they gun down police, dismember their opponents and manufacture highly addictive crystal methamphetamine.
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See also Thanos’s link.