The Colony Quotes

“Mexico had “spread her protecting wings over a persecuted people,”
― Sally Denton, The Colony: Faith and Blood in a Promised Land

“We were taught that we were being persecuted because we were God’s chosen people,”
― Sally Denton, The Colony: Faith and Blood in a Promised Land

“Dayer simply refused to leave Colonia Juárez, choosing instead to endure his low status and the social opprobrium (which he saw as persecution)”
― Sally Denton, The Colony: Faith and Blood in a Promised Land

“They have been taught that persecution is their heritage,”
― Sally Denton, The Colony: Faith and Blood in a Promised Land

“they were being tirelessly persecuted”
― Sally Denton, The Colony: Faith and Blood in a Promised Land

“Smith claimed he was being persecuted”
― Sally Denton, The Colony: Faith and Blood in a Promised Land

“Adrian LeBaron Soto claimed that his clan was being “persecuted”
― Sally Denton, The Colony: Faith and Blood in a Promised Land

“We are being persecuted.”
― Sally Denton, The Colony: Faith and Blood in a Promised Land

“El Chapo had tried to structure the Sinaloa Cartel as a quasi-matriarchy, with more women in leadership roles than any other drug organization in the world—a matricentric configuration that was now being challenged internally by the three Chapitos.”
― Sally Denton, The Colony: Faith and Blood in a Promised Land

“Chapo had tried to structure the Sinaloa Cartel as a quasi-matriarchy, with more women in leadership roles than any other drug organization in the world—a matricentric configuration that was now being challenged internally by the three Chapitos.”
― Sally Denton, The Colony: Faith and Blood in a Promised Land

“The LeBarons further aggravated Mexicans by lobbying US Government officials—going beyond the petition they addressed to the Trump administration—to designate the cartels as terrorist groups so that American forces could launch strikes against them.”
― Sally Denton, The Colony: Faith and Blood in a Promised Land

“the cartels had acquired nearly all of their weapons from the US.”
― Sally Denton, The Colony: Faith and Blood in a Promised Land

“But even into 2021, the offspring of Joel, Ervil, Verlan, and Alma Dayer Jr.—their sons and grandsons—were still battling over who had the rightful authority to hold the leadership of the Church of the Firstborn in Mexico. These rivalries continued to play out in Colonia LeBaron and the immediate vicinity, and even though the murders have stopped as of this writing, the family’s history of violence is never far from the surface, even though now complicated by the newfound prosperity of the clan.”
― Sally Denton, The Colony: Faith and Blood in a Promised Land