Museo del Enervante

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.

References
  1. "Narco Museo". Wn.com. Retrieved 2015-06-25.
  2. "El museo del narco – Marcianos". Marcianosmx.com. Retrieved 2015-06-25.
  3. "Ley de Transparencia". Sedena.gob.mx. Retrieved 2015-06-25.
  4. "Mexican museum details the real enemy: drug cartels". Washingtonpost.com. 2010-01-13. Retrieved 2015-06-25.
  5. "Museo del Enervante, historia del narco". Elsiglodedurango.com.mx. 2008-10-21. Retrieved 2015-06-25.
  6. "El museo del narco mexicano | México". Elmundo.es. Retrieved 2015-06-25.
  7. "Museo del Enervante". Taringa.net. 2010-01-08. Retrieved 2015-06-25.

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