THE NARCOSATANICS

THE NARCOSATANICS

When on May 5, 1989, during a routine checkpoint, the police checked David Serna's car, they never expected to find horror.

The man was immediately arrested, in fact, in addition to carrying drugs, on board they found a baggage, let's say particular and decidedly macabre, a cauldron with hearts, spinal columns and other human remains.

The discovery, in addition to frightening and disgusting the officers, gave rise to an investigation that brought to light a story that was nothing short of chilling, the discovery of a gang of "particular" narcos, at the head of which was a certain Adolfo de Jesús Constanzo, but let's proceed in order.

Adolfo de Jesús Constanzo was a Cuban living in Miami and the son of a priestess who practiced “Palo” (also known as the Rule of Congo), an ancient African religion originating from Congo, which bases its beliefs on hidden powers and interaction with the forces of nature through a fetish composed of bones, organs, blood and human sperm as well as animals, earth and leaves.

In 1983 Constanzo left Miami to move to Mexico, unfortunately the boy corrupted by a society based on the myths of the great narcos and full of the macabre religious teachings received from his mother, after having won the sympathies of some drug traffickers from Matamoros, a city on the border with the USA, managed to brainwash their minds, so much so that he became their spiritual leader, their guru.

Serna, interrogated with unorthodox methods, spilled the beans and what he said was undoubtedly disconcerting. He said he belonged to a criminal gang that operated in the north of the country and that the remains he was transporting belonged to a young American student, Mark Kilroy, but what shocked the agents was when Serna explained what they were for, in fact he confessed that all the members of the gang used to drink a concoction made with human remains, blood, turtles and garlic as it gave them superhuman powers: such as invisibility or resistance to bullets.

The agents, after having acquired further information on the Narcosatanici and having discovered their hideout, located in a ranch known as “Santa Elena” in Matamoros, organized a raid that, after a bloody firefight, led to the death and arrest of almost all the members of the gang, including the leader Constanzo, who however, before being captured, ordered his men to kill him.

Inside the ranch, the police found not only huge quantities of drugs, but also the bodies of 13 mutilated and dismembered people, used to prepare the gruesome concoction.

Among those arrested were two other leaders of the gang, El Duby de León and Sara Aldrete, children of wealthy and respectable families, who, as if to justify themselves, claimed that they had been kidnapped and forced to eat human flesh. Fortunately, they were not believed, also because the investigation revealed that it was Sara Aldrete, an anthropology student at the University of Texas, who put Costanzo in contact with the drug traffickers of Matamoros, and they were sentenced to life imprisonment.

El Duby died abandoned in prison, while Aldrete is serving her sentence today. Thus ends the story of one of the most ferocious and ruthless criminal gangs in Mexico, perhaps even the most ruthless, because the Narcosatanici were not simple narcos, they were something more terrifying, a mix of criminality, belief and innate evil that sowed death and terror for many years. Continue reading