Why Don’t The Drug Dealers Attack The Mothers Of Their Enemies? This Is What We Know About The Code That Protects Them.

Mica for cartelinsider.com

Years ago, almost all agreements were broken in the world of drug trafficking: not killing children and wives was one of them, but there is another “code” that is still in force among enemies who, day after day, face each other in intense gun battles to gain control of the territories. Mothers are not to be touched.

The reason to respect the “code” is simple, following the mother of an enemy is paid back in the same way and -as they say in the criminal world- “even drug lords have mothers”.

We must not overlook that the members of the various cartels in the country are also part of Mexican society, which is why they have customs and thoughts as ingrained as those who do not belong to the criminal world: mothers are synonymous with respect and protection as they are often responsible for the education, upbringing and future of their children in multiple stories.

Mexican moms – including those of the narcos – are usually responsible for maintaining control in thousands of homes, taking care of their children until they grow up and are capable of scolding or punishing them when necessary; in the old school narcos who grew up in the provinces, these family values were so strong that they led them to establish “codes” that were eventually broken. But the mother is always respected.

Perhaps one of the few examples that we can turn to is the attack in La Tuna, Badiraguato, on the home of María Consuelo Loera Pérez – mother of El Chapo Guzmán – orchestrated by Jesús Alfredo Beltrán Guzmán, known as “El Mochomito,” son of Alfredo Beltrán Leyva and nephew of El Chapo.

“El Mochomito” blamed his uncle Aureliano Guzmán Loera, aka “El Guano”, and his cousins Iván Archivaldo and Jesús Alfredo for the murder of Ernesto Guzmán Hidalgo, his grandfather and half-brother of El Chapo Guzmán. He alleged that his grandfather had leaked information to the PGR that led to El Chapo’s arrest in 2014.

Despite the attack by “El Mochomito” on La Tuna that lasted a week with 150 men under his command heavily armed, where at least eight people died; and in addition to looting the house of El Chapo Guzmán’s mother in search of “El Guano”, the heirs of the Beltrán Leyva Organization let her go and allowed her to board a plane.

Two of the most well-known names in the world of drug trafficking are Rafael Caro Quintero, founder of the Guadalajara Cartel, and Joaquín Guzmán Loera, the former leader of the Sinaloa Cartel currently serving a life sentence in the United States. However, in the last month, their names filled the media due to the news of their mothers’ deaths.

The first to lose her life was Consuelo Loera at the age of 94. It was reported that she was hospitalized at a private clinic in Culiacan when she died on December 10th due to the aftereffects of a Covid-19 infection.

One month later, the death of Hermelinda Quintero was reported -presumably she was also around 91 years old-. At the moment, the cause of death has not been confirmed, but it was rumored that it was due to natural causes related to her advanced age.

In 2001, Rafael Caro Quintero told journalist Julio Scherer that he wanted to be released from prison in order to see his family: his children, his wife, his sisters, and his mother. The so-called “Narco of Narcos” achieved his desire in August 2013 when a Collegiate Court granted him his freedom; it is unknown if he ever saw his mother again while hiding from the justice that was still looking for him, and he was eventually recaptured in July 2022 in the mountainous region of Sinaloa.

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