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The LeBaron group is a grouping of related fundamentalist Mormon sects and individuals whose parent sect was originally founded in Colonia LeBaron, Chihuahua, Mexico. As of 2005, Colonia LeBaron contained over 280 adherents of this religious grouping[1] in addition to additional members elsewhere.

History

The group had been founded as a community by Alma Dayer LeBaron, Sr. and members of his large family in about 1924. LeBaron was a member of a fundamentalist Mormon group who, refusing to abandon plural marriage, by the mid-1930s had separated from The Church of Jesus Christ of Latter-day Saints (LDS Church). Originally, the LeBarons had been among a number of LDS families who, at the turn of the twentieth century, had emigrated from the United States to Mexico to escape persecution in the U.S. owing to their refusal to abandon the practice of plural marriage. Joel LeBaron organized the so-called LeBaron group as the Church of the Firstborn of the Fullness of Times in 1956.[2] Thereafter, the church split between brothers Joel and Ervil LeBaron; eventually, Ervil ordered the murder of his brother Joel and other Mormon fundamentalists, for which he was convicted in both Mexico and the United States.[3]

In 2009, the LeBaron colony in Mexico and received national attention in Mexico within the context of war against drug trafficking in Mexico, especially in the northwestern region of the state of Chihuahua. On May 2, Erick Le Baron, 17, was kidnapped for an attempted ransom amount of US$1 million. However, the spokesman of the entire LeBaron community had previously announced its decision not pay any ransom but instead to seek the release of the young man, who was finally freed by his captors on May 10 without there having been made a ransom payment.[4] Throughout this event, the community spoke out publicly, both in the state capital, Chihuahua, and national and international media against the growing insecurity experienced in the region and maintained its intention to continue a policy of refusal to pay ransoms in cases of possible kidnappings.

On July 6, 2009, Erick's brother, Benjamin, and another community member, Luis Widmar Stubbs, were kidnapped and very soon thereafter were murdered on the streets of Colonia LeBaron by a group of armed assailants, who left a written message with the victims' bodies message which stated that this crime was in retaliation for Benjamin's activism against the traffickers.[5][6][7]

Locations and demographics

The group has adherents in Colonia LeBaron, Chihuahua,[8][9][10] along with reputed additional members in Baja California, California, Central America, and Utah.[11]

Colonia Le Baron is located in the northwest of the state of Chihuahua, near the towns of Nuevo Casas Grandes, Colonia Juarez, and Colonia Dublán. It lies thirteen kilometers south of the county seat of Galeana and twenty-one kilometers north of San Buenaventura, its main means of access from Mexican Federal Highway 10. Its geographical coordinates are 30 ° 00'45 "N 107 ° 34'03" W and is located at an altitude 1,480 meters above sea level. According to the results of the Census of Population and Housing 2005 by the National Institute of Statistics and Geography, the population of Le Baron will is 1,051 inhabitants, of which 496 are men and 555 are women.[12]

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References

  1. ^ Brian C. Hales (2005). "Reviews: Janet Bennion, Desert Patriarchy: Mormon and Mennonite Communities in the Chihuahua Valley". Journal of Mormon History. 31 (1): 216. {{cite journal}}: line feed character in |title= at position 64 (help)
  2. ^ "MSNBC: Polygamist's daughter on FBI 'most wanted' list". NBC News. Associated Press. August 13, 2006.
  3. ^ "Lebarones". Universidad Autónoma de Ciudad Juárez. Archived from the original on June 15, 2013. {{cite web}}: Unknown parameter |deadurl= ignored (|url-status= suggested) (help)
  4. ^ "Plagio de hermano lo llevó a la muerte". El Universal. 8 July 2009. Retrieved 2009-07-07.
  5. ^ "Matan a Benjamín Le Barón, activista contra secuestros". El Universal. 8 July 2009. Retrieved 2009-07-07.
  6. ^ "Plagiarios castigan a pueblo en rebeldía". El Universal. 8 July 2009. Retrieved 2009-07-07.
  7. ^ Joaquín Fuentes (8 July 2009). "Asesinan a líder mormón Benjamín Le Barón". Milenio Diario. Retrieved 2009-07-07.
  8. ^ Janet Bennion, Desert patriarchy: Mormon and Mennonite communities in the Chihuahua Valley, Univ. of Arizona Press (2004)
  9. ^ Booth, William (July 23, 2009). "Ambushed by a Drug War: Mormon Clans in Mexico Find Themselves Targets of the Cartels". Washington Post.
  10. ^ Althaus, Dudley (July 11, 2009). "In killings, sect suffers a new bloody chapter". Houston Chronicle.)
  11. ^ D. Michael Quinn (1997). Martin E. Marty; R. Scott Appleby (eds.). Fundamentalisms and Society: Reclaiming the Sciences, the Family, and Education: Volume 2 of The Fundamentalism Project. University of Chicago Press. ISBN 978-0-226-50881-8.
  12. ^ "Archivo histórico de localidades". Instituto Nacional de Estadística y Geografía.
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