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Mormons in Mexico: A brief history of polygamy, cartel violence and faith
Published: November 6, 2019 5:59pm EST
Nine members of a prominent Mormon family in northern Mexico, all women and children, were gunned down on Nov. 4 in territory whose control is disputed by the Sinaloa Cartel and the La Linea militia.
Mexico, which has experienced high crime for over a decade, has seen violence surge in recent weeks. On Oct. 17, a shootout in the city of Culiacan involving the Sinaloa Cartel led officials to release from custody Ovidio Guzman, the son of jailed drug kingpin Joaquin “El Chapo” Guzman.
In the context of so much bloodshed, the LeBaron killings are both highly unusual and tragically quotidian.
Unlike most murder victims in Mexico,the LeBarons are U.S. citizens and Mormons – part of a religious community that broke away from Utah’s Church of Latter-Day Saints years ago. But, as many Mexican journalists have written, the peace activism of family member Julián LeBaron could also have made his community a target. And the LeBarons have a history of violent encounters with organized crime.
Mormons in Mexican history
In my 2018 book on American- and Canadian-based religious enclaves in Mexico, I researched the Latter-Day Saints community and the LeBaron Mormons of Chihuahua state, near the U.S. border. Typically, these communities’ members are somewhat reluctant to talk to outsiders, beyond proselytizing.
But as a person of Mennonite background with relatives in Mennonite colonies in Mexico, I was able to interview members of the Church of Jesus Christ of Latter-Day Saints – the official name of the mainstream Mormon church – in northern Mexico.
Along with the Romneys – relatives of Sen. Mitt Romney, whose father was born in Mexico – the LeBarons are among the most storied families in Mormon history.
Members of Utah’s Latter-Day Saints community emigrated to Mexico in the 1880s to follow their religious beliefs by living in polygamous families, which was illegal in the United States. Polygamy was illegal in Mexico, too, but the government there offered a flexible definition of family and did not enforce its anti-polygamy laws.
Alma “Dayer” LeBaron, the patriarch, was born in 1886 and grew up as a Latter-Day Saint in Colonia Dublán, Chihuahua. In 1904, he married a woman from nearby Colonia Juárez. She left him when he sought a polygamous marriage.
LeBaron fled the Mexican Revolution for Utah in 1912, where he married two women – Maude McDonald and Onie Jones – and had what’s been described as “a large family of sons.”
LeBaron and his big family returned to Mexico in 1924 to find that their Latter-Day Saint neighbors did not welcome their polygamy. So LeBaron established his own colony, called LeBaron, in Chihuahua, Mexico. Today it stretches approximately six miles along a municipal highway and is four miles wide, surrounded by fields. LeBaron also began his own Mormon church.
https://theconversation.com/mormons-in-mexico-a-brief-history-of-polygamy-cartel-violence-and-faith-126493
>Unlike most murder victims in Mexico,the LeBarons are U.S. citizens and Mormons – part of a religious community that broke away from Utah’s Church of Latter-Day Saints years ago
AI Overview
Lindsey LeBaron serves as the Communications Manager for Utah's Governor's Office of Economic Opportunity, a role she has held during Spencer Cox's time as governor
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She is a key contact for media inquiries related to the office's activities, including the trade missions that Governor Cox has led. Her name appears in press releases and news articles covering events associated with the governor's office.
Examples of her involvement include:
Trade Mission to Canada (April 2025): The Governor's Office of Economic Opportunity listed LeBaron as the media contact for the trade mission to Montréal and Toronto.
Trade Mission to Israel and UAE (September 2022): She was also the designated media contact for this trade mission led by Cox.
Trade Mission to South Korea and Japan: Press releases concerning the trade delegation to these countries also list her as the contact for media inquiries.
Lindsey Lebaron
MS Mass Communication - Global Strategic Communications
Provo, Utah, United States
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Florida International University
Master of Science - MS Global Strategic Communications 4.0
2020 - 2021
BYU Jerusalem Center
General Education Middle Eastern Studies 4.0
2017 - 2017
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Brigham Young University
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2010 - 2017
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The HOFT Institute
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