Question From a Colleague
Feb 12th, 2010 | By Michel Marizco | Category: Chismes, General News
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THE BORDER REPORT
Some of you may know the answer to this.
In “Down by the River,” Charles Bowden mentions a church in Ojinaga, Chihuahua, that Amado Carrillo built. Anyone know which
church and what year that might have happened?
Amado set Pablo Acosta up and he was killed in about 1985. Amado worked under him before this and shortly after he took much of the business back to Juarez with him. I do not know what church it was and can only guess that that it was built between 1980 and 1985 when Amado was there. I saw a man today that could have answered that and if by fate I see him tomorrow, I will ask him.
That book was great!
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1992 Santa Teresa?
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I’m reading Druglord now. I’ll get back to you when I get to that part.
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Druglord is an awesome book. No mention of a church that I recall.
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I am an Ojinaga native, lived there from 1970-1987 and witness some of the shootouts that took place. I don’t remember Amado bulding a church or ever hearing about it, in Mexico it’s common for people to built small temples, a 14×12 room, to honor the virgen or other saints. It could be that Amado built one of this, perhaps a little bigger but not a full blown church.
BTW, Amado learned quite a bit from his mentor Acosta only to turn him in but then Pablo pretty much sealed his faith by conducting those interviews with Mr. Poppa. I remember that back in the day narcos would only attack each other and not bystanders of innocent people. In fact, some of the shootouts that took place in the open never result in any bystander getting hurt or killed, also they would rather wait for their target and take them them hostage until they paid or simply execute them in the desert, far from the town.
I am not saying they were good people because they were still violent drug dealers but at least they had some kind of honor and respect for others. The narcos in Juarez are simply gutless thugs with guns who would shoot their own mothers for a buck.
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I know I didn’t donate $5 whole dollars to re-read the same story every freaking day…
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It doesn’t look like it was a Catholic Church. Their website is pretty thorough and I couldn”t find anything useful. But apparently Ojinaga is only 75% Catholic, and the remaining 25% is Morman and 7th Day Adventist. I don’t know if “Gil” was only refering to Catholic Churches, or churches in general. Pero narco trafficantes don’t strike me as outside the religious mainstream, but who knows….
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