Remember La Mora | Adriana Jones

Hold These Truths with Dan Crenshaw

Dan Crenshaw

Politics, Energy, Healthcare, News, World, Society & Culture, Regulations, Finance, America, Freedom

4.6 • 16K Ratings

🗓️ 13 August 2025

⏱️ 50 minutes

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Summary

On the morning of November 4, 2019, a random act of cartel violence in Mexico sent shockwaves across the world. A group of Mormon settlers, in a chance encounter with the Juarez Cartel, were shot, burned alive, and left for dead in the road near their community. Nine American citizens died, and five of them were relatives of Adriana Jones: her sister Rhonita and four of her young nieces and nephews. Adriana joined Rep. Crenshaw to recount the sheer, inhumane brutality of that day, the aftermath, and the systemic failures within Mexico’s police and government which allow tragedies like this to occur.

Adriana Jones is the founder of RhonitaVIVE, an organization dedicated to advocating for justice and support for the victims of cartel violence and organized crime.

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0:00.0	We hold these truths to be self-evident.
0:02.1	That all men are created.
0:03.4	As a member of Congress, I get to have a lot of really interesting people in the office.
0:07.3	Experts on what they're talking about.
0:08.9	This is the podcast for insights into the issues.
0:11.6	China, bioterrorism, Medicare for all, in-depth discussions.
0:16.0	Breaking it down into simple terms.
0:17.9	We hold.
0:18.7	We hold these truths.
0:20.1	We hold these truths. with Dan Crenshaw.
0:23.8	Great. Welcome back, folks, to the Hold These Truths podcast. And today is quite the story we have
0:30.6	with us, Adriana Jones. Adriana, thanks so much for being on. Thank you so much for having me, Congressman.
0:35.2	So the, so we're talking about cartels today, but specifically your story, which is a gut-wrenching story from 2019, what's known as Lamora Massacre, where you lost many of your family members.
0:53.8	Let's just start there.
0:56.0	The story of the Mormon population there, how that even came to be, and then what
1:03.9	happened.
1:04.4	And then we'll get into like the, you know, we'll fast forward to today to the fight
1:08.8	against the cartels.
1:09.8	And I think both the Mexican and American government is finally starting to take it a little bit more seriously,
1:15.3	certainly more seriously than Oberador, President Oberdor ever took it.
1:20.2	And with President Trump in office, too, there's a newfound focus.
1:24.7	But this is one of those, and it's a rare case, but it's one of those cases where
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