LeBarón Family Is Not Leaving

2024 Author: Steven Freeman | [email protected]. Last modified: 2023-12-17 08:15

Dozens of relatives of the LeBarón, Langford and Miller clan traveled from various parts of the United States and Mexico to meet and bury their nine dead in the massacre that occurred this Monday on a rural road where the states of Sonora and Chihuahua unite.

"They were innocent, each and every one of them," Lafe Langford Jr., cousin of Rhonita Miller, one of the victims, said in pain during his speech at the funerals this Thursday. "These are extreme circumstances, I never thought I would witness these atrocities in my life."

Multiple members of these families crossed the same road where their relatives were killed, strongly protected by the Mexican army.

And while this Thursday the burial of three of the six children and three women who died in the tragedy took place, the Mexican government's investigations continue to find those responsible for firing at least 200 shots at the convoy of three cars of women and children from where Mexican and American citizenship.

"We are a family of more than 5,000 members in our communities and our roots are already planted here in Mexico, we do not plan to leave," Lorenzo Widmar, Rhonita's cousin, one of the victims of the tragedy, told the Mexican newspaper Milenio.

Painful scenes from the funerals of one of the mothers and her four murdered children, held this Thursday in La Morita, Sonora. On Friday the procession will travel to Galeana, to bury the rest of the deceased

On the other hand, Julián LeBarón, one of the most prominent figures in this family and an active critic of violence and organized crime in Mexico, declared that in his home, in La Morita, Sonora, there is no “confusion” of any kind. what caused the tragedy, as the government of President Andrés Manuel López Obrador has handled.

"We know that the people who shot knew precisely that the passengers of the car were women and children, there is a lot of evidence, there is a lot of evidence," he told the Mexican magazine Proceso. "There was no confusion who they were shooting at, what there is a lot of confusion about is why they did it."

On the future of the family, which has part of the clan spread throughout Utah, Arizona, North Dakota, Chihuahua and Sonora, LeBarón agrees: the family will remain firm and united on Mexican soil. "We believe that freedom was given to us by God and then we not only have the right, but the duty to defend what our world is," he said defiantly. "We are not going to remain silent and we are not going to let the evil remain with what is ours".