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Word: servando (lookup in dictionary) (lookup stats)
Dates: during 2000-2009
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Usage:

...chilling call appears to be the latest attempt to take the moral high ground by a quasi-religious drug cartel that has become one of the most dangerous threats to Mexican security forces. The caller identified himself as Servando Gomez, head of a narcotics mafia that has baptized itself La Familia Michoacana. The gangsters, who had bought ads in newspapers and given an interview to a leading Mexican magazine, claim that although they traffic drugs, they protect their local community and purport to be devout Evangelical Christians. All members are disciplined to abstain from narcotics themselves and care for their...

Author: /time Magazine | Title: Drug-Dealing for Jesus: Mexico's Evangelical Narcos | 7/19/2009 | See Source »

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