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 Colonia Lomas de Sotelo, Miguel Hidalgo, Mexico City, but it is not open to the public. Only military personnel, journalists, and certain students are allowed to visit.[3]
References
- ^ "Narco Museo". Wn.com. Retrieved 25 June 2015.
- ^ "El museo del narco – Marcianos". Marcianosmx.com. 25 January 2010. Retrieved 25 June 2015.
- ^ a b "Ley de Transparencia" (in Spanish). Sedena.gob.mx. Archived from the original on 26 June 2012. Retrieved 25 June 2015.
- ^ "Mexican museum details the real enemy: drug cartels". The Washington Post. 13 January 2010. Archived from the original on 12 February 2011. Retrieved 25 June 2015.
- ^ "Museo del Enervante, historia del narco" (in Spanish). El Siglo de Durango. 21 October 2008. Retrieved 25 June 2015.
- ^ "El museo del narco mexicano | México" (in Spanish). El Mundo. 8 January 2010. Retrieved 25 June 2015.
