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By: The opinion Posted Jul 13, 2023, 14:42 pm EDT
The decade of the 80s passed and in Mexico the large drug cartels began to operate -some are still in force to this day-, crimes and scandals began to fill the media, but there was a particular case that stood out, that of “The Narcosatanics”, an organization that not only trafficked illicit substances, but also allegedly made human sacrifices. Of all its members, only one lived to pay for what they did, sara aldretealias “La Narcosatánica”, whose life inspired the HBO docuseries with the same name as her nickname, and which premieres this July 13
It is not the first time that Aldrete’s life has inspired a project, since in 1997 the Spanish director Alex de la Iglesia made the film “Lost Durango”, which was based on the life of the couple who sowed terror in Mexican territory and even kidnapped Americans. Of course, being a fiction it has several things that were not part of reality.
But now, the streaming platform wants to show all the edges of this case that shook the world. According to Claudia Fernández, Warner Bros. Senior Manager of Nonfiction Content Development, her commitment is to show all possible versions of the facts.
“Three things will be seen here: journalistic rigor, evidence, and new data that was not disclosed in the past. It is not an issue of redemption, but of presenting the collected facts and letting people make their own decision,” he noted.
Who is Sara Aldrete?
She was born in Matamoros, Tamaulipas, her parents named her Sara María Aldrete Villarreal, she studied Anthropology and Physical Education at the University of Texas Southmost. During that time, she met the man who changed her life completely. Adolfo de Jesus Constanzoleader of a sect that practiced Santeria, in addition to integrating it with other practices such as the Aztec warrior ritual and Palo Mayombe, which Constanzo learned from his mother, with whom he lived in Puerto Rico, reported the newspaper El Financiero.
Constanzo, known as “El Brujo,” was also a drug kingpin in Matamoros. They nicknamed her “La Madrina” and together they shared a criminal path that came to an end when the American student was kidnapped. mark kilroy. The pressure of the US authorities on the Mexican ones led to one of the members of the sect being arrested, discovering a cauldron with human remains.
Investigations led to an apartment in Mexico City, where Constanzo was shot and Aldrete was arrested. He was given a 60-year sentence for his role in 13 murders, which in 1995 was reduced to 50 years. She purges her sentence in a women’s prison in the Mexican capital.
To this day, Sara Aldrete continues to insist on her innocence and assures that she was also a victim of “El Brujo”.
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