{"id":7561,"date":"2015-01-30T14:02:31","date_gmt":"2017-03-28T00:06:45","guid":{"rendered":"http:\/\/newwp.insightcrime.org?p=7561"},"modified":"2023-04-24T15:43:30","modified_gmt":"2023-04-24T20:43:30","slug":"mirada-narcoiglesias-paraguay","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/insightcrime.org\/es\/noticias\/noticias-del-dia\/mirada-narcoiglesias-paraguay\/","title":{"rendered":"Una mirada a las narcoiglesias de Paraguay"},"content":{"rendered":"\n<p class=\"wp-block-paragraph\">Una serie de fotos publicadas recientemente \u2014que muestra iglesias pertenecientes a presuntos narcotraficantes en Paraguay\u2014 recuerda la a veces complicada intersecci\u00f3n entre religi\u00f3n y crimen organizado en Latinoam\u00e9rica.<\/p>\n\n\n\n<p class=\"wp-block-paragraph\">A mediados de enero, las autoridades informaron que los agentes de una jefatura de polic\u00eda local en el oriente de Paraguay <a href=\"\/noticias\/noticias-del-dia\/policia-robo-cargamento-cocaina-paraguay\" target=\"_blank\">fueron acusados de robar m\u00e1s de 250 kilos de coca\u00edna<\/a> que hab\u00eda sido incautada, y de entregarla al presunto narcotraficante Clemencio Gonz\u00e1lez Gim\u00e9nez, alias \u201cGringo\u201d. Durante la investigaci\u00f3n del caso, los agentes policiales buscaron las propiedades de Gonz\u00e1lez en el departamento de Amambay y encontraron un edificaci\u00f3n que a algunos les podr\u00eda resultar sorprendente \u2014no era una discoteca, ni tampoco un zool\u00f3gico, sino una peque\u00f1a iglesia\u2014. Las fotos fueron <a href=\"https:\/\/www.abc.com.py\/edicion-impresa\/politica\/rezan-a-dios-para-evadir-justicia-terrenal-y-prosperar-en-negocios-1330131.html\" target=\"_blank\">publicadas originalmente por ABC Color<\/a> y son reproducidas con permiso por InSight Crime.<\/p>\n\n\n\n<p class=\"wp-block-paragraph\"><img data-recalc-dims=\"1\" decoding=\"async\" src=\"https:\/\/i0.wp.com\/es.insightcrime.org\/images\/church2.jpg?quality=100&#038;ssl=1\" alt=\"church2\" style=\"margin: 5px auto;border: 1px solid #000000\">Seg\u00fan ABC Color, este no ser\u00eda el primer ejemplo de un presunto narcotraficante que decide construir su propia iglesia en Paraguay. En 2009, la Secretar\u00eda Nacional Antidrogas (Senad) del pa\u00eds encontr\u00f3 una iglesia (ver abajo) en la propiedad del narcotraficante Jarvis Chimenes Pav\u00e3o, quien antes de su arresto era <a href=\"\/noticias\/analisis\/carrera-jefe-criminal-paraguay-cambiante-comercio-drogas-latinoamerica\" target=\"_blank\">uno de los criminales m\u00e1s buscados de Paraguay<\/a>.<\/p>\n\n\n\n<p class=\"wp-block-paragraph\"><img data-recalc-dims=\"1\" decoding=\"async\" src=\"https:\/\/i0.wp.com\/es.insightcrime.org\/images\/church1.jpg?quality=100&#038;ssl=1\" alt=\"church1\" style=\"margin: 5px auto;border: 1px solid #000000\">En 2011, la Senad <a href=\"https:\/\/www.ultimahora.com\/el-santuario-que-un-narco-le-construyo-la-virgen-caacupe-n855263.html\" target=\"_blank\">tambi\u00e9n descubri\u00f3<\/a> un peque\u00f1o \u201csantuario\u201d (ver abajo) en la residencia del narcotraficante Tom\u00e1s Rojas Ca\u00f1ete en Ciudad del Este. Las autoridades allanaron su propiedad e incautaron m\u00e1s de 100 kilos de coca\u00edna.<\/p>\n\n\n\n<h3 class=\"wp-block-heading\"><img data-recalc-dims=\"1\" decoding=\"async\" src=\"https:\/\/i0.wp.com\/es.insightcrime.org\/images\/church3.jpg?quality=100&#038;ssl=1\" alt=\"church3\" style=\"margin: 5px auto;border: 1px solid #000000\">An\u00e1lisis de InSight Crime<\/h3>\n\n\n\n<p class=\"wp-block-paragraph\">Los narcotraficantes que dicen creer y seguir las reglas de la Iglesia cat\u00f3lica tienen en ocasiones segundas intenciones al practicar su fe, dice un experto.<\/p>\n\n\n\n<p class=\"wp-block-paragraph\">\u201cEllos [los narcotraficantes] en su mayor\u00eda est\u00e1n en la b\u00fasqueda de la protecci\u00f3n divina y no est\u00e1n interesados en el cristianismo como sistema \u00e9tico\u201d, dijo a InSight Crime Andrew Chesnut, profesor de estudios religiosos en la Virginia Commonwealth University y autor del libro \u201c<em>Devoted to Death: Santa Muerte, the Skeleton Saint<\/em>\u201c.&nbsp;<\/p>\n\n\n\n<p class=\"wp-block-paragraph\">Chesnut se\u00f1al\u00f3 que en el caso de Paraguay \u2014donde el 90 por ciento de la poblaci\u00f3n es cat\u00f3lica\u2014 cuando los delincuentes se vinculan a una religi\u00f3n en particular \u201clo hacen sobre todo en un contexto cat\u00f3lico\u201d.<\/p>\n\n\n\n<p class=\"wp-block-paragraph\"><strong><span style=\"color: #800000\">VEA TAMBI\u00c9N:<\/span><\/strong> <a href=\"\/component\/tags\/tag\/271-paraguay\" target=\"_blank\">Cobertura sobre Paraguay<\/a><\/p>\n\n\n\n<p class=\"wp-block-paragraph\">Pero ese no es el caso en otras partes de Latinoam\u00e9rica. En Puerto Rico y Colombia, aquellos involucrados en el mundo del tr\u00e1fico de drogas son <a href=\"\/news\/analysis\/latin-american-drug-traffickers-turn-to-cults-for-comfort\" target=\"_blank\">conocidos por practicar la santer\u00eda <\/a>\u2014una combinaci\u00f3n de creencias y pr\u00e1cticas cat\u00f3licas romanas y de \u00c1frica Occidental\u2014 pues creen que esta les ayudar\u00e1 a evitar que sean <a href=\"\/noticias\/noticias-del-dia\/colombia-captura-otro-lider-oficina-envigado\" target=\"_blank\">detectados por las autoridades<\/a>. En M\u00e9xico, algunos habitantes del estado de Michoac\u00e1n <a href=\"\/noticias\/noticias-del-dia\/arresto-de-narcosanto-mexicano-aviva-pasiones-en-territorio-asediado\" target=\"_blank\">canonizaron a uno de los fundadores<\/a> del grupo criminal La Familia Michoacana, Nazario Moreno Gonz\u00e1lez, alias \u201cEl M\u00e1s Loco\u201d, y construyeron una iglesia para venerar al \u201cnarcosanto\u201d despu\u00e9s de su presunta muerte en 2010 \u2014posteriormente <a href=\"\/noticias\/noticias-del-dia\/es-dado-de-baja-un-mitico-lider-de-un-cartel-de-mexico-esta-vez-es-cierto\" target=\"_blank\">fue encontrado muerto luego de un tiroteo con las autoridades en 2014<\/a>\u2014. Los Caballeros Templarios, un grupo escindido de La Familia Michoacana, han continuado con esta tradici\u00f3n mitol\u00f3gica seudorreligiosa de <a href=\"\/noticias\/analisis\/revelaciones-del-manual-de-adoctrinamiento-de-los-caballeros-templarios-de-mexico\" target=\"_blank\">adoctrinar a los nuevos reclutas <\/a>con una devoci\u00f3n fan\u00e1tica hacia Dios.<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>Una serie de fotos publicadas recientemente \u0097que muestra iglesias pertenecientes a presuntos narcotraficantes en Paraguay\u0097 recuerda la a veces complicada intersecci\u00f3n entre religi\u00f3n y crimen organizado en 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