WhatsApp messages flooded Amber Bostwick’s phone last Tuesday as relatives sent ...
- WhatsApp messages flooded Amber Bostwick’s phone last Tuesday as relatives sent harrowing accounts of the slaughter of nine women and children by drug cartel gunmen in northern Mexico.The 35-year-old Seattle homemaker had spent much of her life trying to keep away from her parents’ self-described fundamentalist branch of the Mormon faith and Colonia LeBaron - her polygamist father’s Mexico community where some of the massacre victims were from.
“The massacre has simply allowed me to support and love family,” said Bostwick, a convert to Christianity, whose mother was 15 when she gave birth to her, and who was later adopted by her U.S. grandparents. “They need to send experts in building a state of law,” said Adrian LeBaron, 58, of Colonia LeBaron, who lost his daughter Rhonita and four grandchildren in the attack. “I don’t want snipers, I want educators.”Most of the victims of Monday’s massacre were from La Mora, a remote Mormon-linked farming village in Sonora around 80 miles south of the U.S.-Mexico border.
“We’re going to have to put aside our religious differences and focus on basic rights like liberty and justice,” said LeBaron, whose father was a prophet, and who has four wives, and until Monday, 39 children and 79 grandchildren. But on Monday La Mora’s Miller, Langford and Johnson families suffered the same agony relatives in Colonia LeBaron felt 10 years ago when Benjamin LeBaron and his brother-in-law Luis Widmar were murdered after they stood up to cartel violence.
“There are a lot of indignant men in both communities, young, they’re going to make a plan, possibly that includes the help of both countries,” said LeBaron Abbate, 65. She returned to her birthplace Colonia LeBaron 13 years ago after living in the United States for more than three decades.
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