The work of La Familia? An officer watches over the body of one of the three policemen who were killed during an attack against the Federal Police barracks in Zitacuaro, Mexico. QUADRATIN / EPADrug Dealing for Jesus: Mexico's Evangelical Narcos -- Time Magazine
News anchor Marcos Knapp had been broadcasting reports of narco carnage all week from his western state of Michoacan: the mutilated corpses of 12 federal police officers dumped on a road; police headquarters attacked by dozens of gunmen with grenades; three officers called out to a traffic accident and then murdered in an ambush. But, as violent as the incidents were, Knapp was only truly shocked when a caller phoned his news show and said he was one of the cartel capos behind this bloodshed. "Our fight is with the federal police because they are attacking our families," the voice said calmly while Knapp stared worriedly at the camera. "If someone attacks my father, my mother or my brother then they are going to hear from me... If they only act against us, then we will respect them."
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