Father in Mexico Mormon Massacre Has Message to Leaders
"If I place the blame for my daughter's murder on something — that something is called the abandonment by... the governments of Chihuahua and Sonora." Adrián LeBarón spoke with Brut about the brutal massacre of his family.
‘I can’t get that sight of my family out of my head’
The daughter and 4 grandchildren of Adrián LeBarón — grandson of the founder of Colonia LeBarón in Galeana — were murdered at the border of Chihuahua and Sonora. The nine women and children killed by drug cartel gunmen in northern Mexico lived in a remote farming community where residents call themselves Mormon — descendants of former members of The Church of Jesus of Latter-day Saints who fled the U.S. to escape the church’s 19th century polygamy ban.
“The reason why I’ve agreed to this interview is that my daughter was killed in this massacre: María Rhonita LeBarón Tucker. If I place the blame for my daughter’s murder on anything, that something is called the neglect by both governments – the governments of Chihuahua and Sonora – of this area. One thing that clearly confirmed for me the neglect to which this area is subject is that when I heard about my daughter, that they’d set fire to the car she was in. Yes, we sought help from the federal police. They came with us, because we heard that and we went there, and a couple of Army soldiers also came with us. And what shocked me the most was arriving at the scene. Seeing them there, going down and seeing their bullet-ridden bodies, shot dead and covered in blood. I can’t get that sight out of my head,” Adrián Dayer LeBarón Soto, Father of Rhonita LeBarón tells Brut.
Many of the families living there trace their origins to the community of La Mora to the 1950s — and some have much deeper roots. With a population of less than 1,000 dual U.S.-Mexican citizens, La Mora lies in a desert valley ringed by rugged mountains about 70 miles south of the border towns of Douglas, Arizona and Agua Prieta in Mexico’s Sonora state.
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489 comments
Maria J.
02/11/2020 16:08😔
Luis Z.
02/11/2020 12:55Not by the Chihuahua state is by the federal government
Pedro R.
02/11/2020 01:27Este señor lebaron.tiene una cara de asesino que no puede con ella está muy tranquilo después de haber perdido a su hija no le creo nada
Carmela J.
02/10/2020 23:35Mi más sentido pésame señor pero a que ser realistas no nadamás culpemos al gobierno nosotros también tenemos culpa porque vemos.algo que se está cometiendo una I gusticia y volteamos la cara asia otro lado .pero cuando nos toca en lo personal ay si gritamos y pesos gusticia en pesos con investigar a la propia familia de uno mío y verán muchos que sorpresa.se lleva uno
Frances S.
02/10/2020 22:04Amen bendiciones.amen
Javier L.
02/10/2020 05:36Puro pedo por algo les Disen ke es el cartel de Galeana
Arnold S.
02/10/2020 03:28Corrupto steeds todo el apollo y tu quieres segir en corrupcion basura y robando al Pueblo
Bernardo P.
02/10/2020 02:22Que jente tan mala como animan a ser eso son unos animales
Miguel A.
02/10/2020 02:03pendejo en eso hubiera pensado antes de robarse el agua de los campesinos no estuviera chingando a su madre larguese a la chingada pinche abuson y todavía lucra con la muerte de su hija no tiene vergüenza
Andres A.
02/10/2020 01:11Ese akgo se llama todad la barbaridades que as hechocon atuda de autoridades corruptas,en contra de gente humilde asesinatos despojos y mucho mas
Fidel G.
02/09/2020 21:01Señores ellos an tenido problemas desde años atras con los carteles se han apoderado de terrenos
Felipe T.
02/09/2020 06:49El gobierno mexicano es un gobierno corructo que cada día esta peor para los mexicanos el pueblo nesecita levantarse en armas
Cruz B.
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Erica F.
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Erica F.
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Pilar G.
02/08/2020 19:12Adonde está laguardia. Nacional
Sandra R.
02/08/2020 07:53Todo en esta vida se paga y esas personas q mataron a esa gente inocente lo pagaron c sus propios hijos y donde más les duela
Francisco R.
02/08/2020 07:33Wow lo siento amigo
Tomas T.
02/08/2020 03:18Por desgrasia asi es en mexico nunca asen nada ni encuentran el culpable pasan las cosas y como si nada pasara
Lupita O.
02/07/2020 21:24Donde esta el Lopes obrador bueno para nada