There are several Satanist churches operating openly in Matamoros that used to have to hide their existence. A principal motivation and ideological foundation among collaborationnistes was anticommunism. Despite the influx of trained soldiers from the colonial forces reduced in size in accordance with the armistice , there was a shortage of volunteers. JSTOR If the Mexican government could not eradicate the cartels, it preferred to support the branch of organized crime that did not depend wholly on publicized terror to impose its will, like the Zetas.
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