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Backgruond info on the LeBaron family and Mexico https://mexiconewsdaily.com/news/dispute-over-water-fuelled-attack-on-lebaron-family/

The family’s ranch was attacked last year by neighboring farmers who claimed that illegal water wells had been drilled on the property.

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More than 100 members of El Barzón broke into the LeBarón family’s walnut farm in the municipality of San Buenaventura in April 2018.

In 2018, Conagua data showed that 14 of 61 aquifers in Chihuahua were overexploited. Several of them are located in municipalities where the LeBarón family owns ranches.

Before the ranch attack, El Barzón claimed that the LeBarón family planned to drill 50 new wells on the property for the irrigation of walnut trees, which require significant amounts of water.

The farmers’ group has long claimed that the LeBarón family’s illegal use of water resources will leave communities without any. The family denies any wrongdoing.

After last year’s attack at San Buenaventura, the then LEADER of El Barzón, Eraclio Rodríguez (now a FEDERAL lawmaker with the ruling Morena party), said that he and other members of the farmers’ group received death threats from the LeBarón family.”

The LEADER OF THE FARMER’S GROUP IS NOW A FEDERAL LAWMAKER WITH THE RULING MORENA Party!! A little over a year later and the LeBaron family is gunned down. No wonder the President of Mexico (Morena Party) would turn down President Trump’s offer of assistance.

https://mexiconewsdaily.com/news/attackers-not-confused-they-knew-they-were-killing-women-children-lebaron/

“All the conclusions that we’ve reached is that it was something that was almost premeditated against the community,” Adrián LeBarón, father of victim Rhonita Maria Miller, told the newspaper Milenio.

“They knew that they were killing women and children. There are kids who say they saw when their aunt got out of the vehicle and raised her hands. They saw when she was killed, where’s the confusion?” he said, responding to Durazo’s claim that there was confusion on the part of the criminal gangs involved.”

Another of her sons, 13-year-old Devin Blake Langford, hid his six surviving brothers and sisters – five of whom had been wounded – in bushes and “covered them with branches to keep them safe while he went for help,” Miller said.

He arrived at La Mora at 5:30pm, six hours after the ambush occurred, and raised the alarm.

Julián LeBarón said in an interview that the boy WAS shot at on his way back to the family ranch but he avoided injury. Men at the ranch armed themselves and set off to get the surviving children.

Julian LeBarón, who has been outspoken in his condemnation of organized crime, told Milenio that “something very evil” happened on Monday, adding: “We’re unable to explain how armed men could kill women and children with so much cruelty.”

He said that Christina Langford shouted, “we’re women!” to the attackers before she was shot at close range.”

I read somewhere that the phones/communication system was down for awhile the day the attack occurred. Does anyone else remember reading that?