On Nov. 4, 2019, nine members of the Lebaron family (from a Mormon community established in northern Mexico) were brutally assassinated in Sonora state. Although the crime has been attributed to drug traffickers, it is now reported that in the same region is found the world’s largest lithium reserve—about 243 million tons, eleven times bigger than Bolivia’s reserves—where increasing unrest is constantly reported as another form of a “drug war.”14 President Trump, unsurprisingly, offered President López Obrador his full support in the form of a military intervention.
