Museo del Enervante explained

The Museo del Enervante is a Mexican museum. It is also known popularly as the Narco Museo,[1] Museo del Narco[2] and other nicknames. It is also known, officially, as Museo del Enervantes de la Secretaria de la Defensa Nacional[3] (Sedena).

History

The museum was established in 1985.[4]

Displays

The museum offers different displays of artifacts that belonged to notorious Mexican drug traffickers, and to Jesus Malverde, the so-called "saint of Mexican drug dealers".[5]

There is a dissected body of a dog named "Zuyaqui", who in life was the dog that detected the most drugs in Mexican Military history; and items belonging to Daniel Perez Rojas, Benjamin Arellano Felix and Javier Torres Felix, among others.[6]

Other information

The museum is located at Lomas de Sotelo, Distrito Federal de Mexico, but it is not open to the public.[7] Only military personnel and certain students are allowed to visit.

Notes and References

  1. Web site: Narco Museo . Wn.com . 2015-06-25.
  2. Web site: El museo del narco – Marcianos . Marcianosmx.com . 25 January 2010. 2015-06-25.
  3. Web site: Ley de Transparencia . Sedena.gob.mx . 2015-06-25.
  4. Web site: Mexican museum details the real enemy: drug cartels . https://web.archive.org/web/20110212234254/http://www.washingtonpost.com/wp-dyn/content/gallery/2010/01/13/GA2010011304246.html . dead . 2011-02-12 . Washingtonpost.com . 2010-01-13 . 2015-06-25.
  5. Web site: Museo del Enervante, historia del narco . Elsiglodedurango.com.mx . 2008-10-21 . 2015-06-25.
  6. Web site: El museo del narco mexicano | México . Elmundo.es . 2015-06-25.
  7. Web site: Museo del Enervante . Taringa.net . 2010-01-08 . 2015-06-25.