Editing Las Poquianchis

{{Evil Organization|commanders=[[María Delfina González Valenzuela]]|name=Evil Organization|Image=Las-poquianchis-foto-archivo.jpg|foundation=1945|origin=El Salto, Jalisco, Mexico|type of villain=pimp psychopaths|crimes=[[Homicide]]<br>[[Kidnapping]]<br>[[Rape]]<br>[[Illegal drug trade]]<br>[[Murder]]<br>Extortion<br>[[Misogyny]]<br>[[Misandry]]|agents=[[María del Carmen González Valenzuela]]<br>[[María Luisa González Valenzuela]]<br>[[María de Jesús González Valenzuela]]|headquarters=San Francisco del Rincón, Guanajuato, México}}
{{Quote|They beat them with sticks and iron rods they threw them to the dogs if they did not obey and they earned money with that.|Words of one of the rescued victims.}}

'''The "Poquianchis"''' is the name by which a female group of Mexican serial killers active between 1945 until 1964. The group was made up of the 4 sisters of the González Valenzuela family, it is known that they killed for at least 91 people but its believe that they killed more than 200 people. 

==Background==
The sisters were born with the surname Torres Valenzuela and were daughters of the marriage of Isidro Torres and Bernardina Valenzuela, from El Salto, Jalisco. The González family was a very dysfunctional family, his father worked as a police officer for the  [[Porfirio Díaz|Porfirista government]] with the position of bailiff and remained in the position even after the [[Mexican Revolution]]. He was a violent, arrogant and [[Authoritarianism|authoritarian]] man who frequently beat his wife and children. It is said that since they were little they forced their daughters to watch the executions of prisoners. On her part, her mother was a  religious fanatic.

The mistreatment in the house reached such a point that on a certain occasion Carmen González, as a teenager, ran away from home with her boyfriend, Luis Jasso, several years older than her. Her father looked for her and after finding her he beat her and imprisoned her for several months in the municipal prison (without any cause or arrest warrant). That same day Isidro Torres became a fugitive from justice by murdering an alleged criminal named Félix Ornelas; the deceased was a landowner suspected of various crimes, who died during the attempted arrest after being shot several times in the back by Isidro Torres. When the latter fled from justice, he left his daughter imprisoned for 14 months. Carmen she got out of prison thanks to a man in his fifties, owner of a grocery store with whom she had established a love relationship. As a result of this relationship, a son was born.

The Torres Valenzuela family was forced to change their last name to González to avoid possible reprisals and to be able to flee the town. Her father separated from his family to live a life as a fugitive.  

===Incursion as businesswomen===
In [[1935|1935,]] the family lived in a state of pitiful poverty. The sisters had found employment in a textile factory, but the wages were barely enough to support them.

In 1938, Carmen met a man named Jesús Vargas ''"El Gato",'' with whom she entered into a relationship; that same year they moved in together. They opened a small canteen in El Salto. Vargas squandered the profits of the establishment until it was ruined. After this, Carmen left him and returned to live with her family.

By that time the parents of the González sisters had died, leaving them a modest inheritance. With this capital, Delfina González opened her first brothel located in El Salto, Jalisco . Prostitution was illegal in Jalisco, but the surveillance to combat this practice was poor. The brothel was active for a long time, until a fight that arose in the place caught the attention of the authorities, who closed the establishment.

In [[1954]], Delfina moved the establishment to Lagos de Moreno, Jalisco, during the festivities of the annual fair held in the town. To establish the business, the women had the support of several corrupt authorities . The mayor himself granted the permits for the business to operate as a bar in exchange for sexual favors.

The women were cheated or bought from traffickers. The system with which the brothel operated was similar to the penage used during the Porfiriato: the captives were forced to buy supplies, such as clothing and food, at arbitrary prices, thus accumulating immense debts. They were then forced into prostitution in order to pay them.

According to the story of the González Valenzuela sisters, the techniques they used to set up a brothel consisted first of making friends with the authorities to be protected. On many occasions they became lovers and provided money to local officials to ensure that their business was not closed.

Already installed in their cabarets, "Las Poquianchis" hired people to go around the Republic in search of adolescents between 12 and 15 years of age, and through deception and extortion they would lead them to their businesses, where once they entered, they were kept in captivity for prostitution.

The Ministry of Health issued false control cards, which "Las Poquianchis" used to presume that the girls were healthy. These cards cost a lot of money, but they served to give customers peace of mind.

In 1964, Catalina Ortega, one of the most recent girls to arrive at the brothel, managed to escape and presented herself at the headquarters of the Judicial Police of León, Guanajuato. The authorities issued an arrest warrant and went to San Francisco del Rincón. There they detained Delfina and María de Jesús. María Luisa managed to escape at the last moment. The case was widely publicized by the magazine ''Alarma!''. Some rescued women testified to the events. 
==Conviction==
After several months of the process that consisted of confrontations and interrogations, finally Delfina, María de Jesús and María Luisa González Valenzuela, were accused of lenociny, kidnapping and aggravated homicide and received a sentence of 40 years in prison, however, two of them died behind bars before obtaining their freedom.

Delfina, known as La Poquianchis Mayor, died at the age of 56 in jail in Irapuato, on October 17, 1968; María Luisa, nicknamed “Eva La Piernuda”, lost her life in her cell at the Irapuato municipal jail in November 1984 after being consumed by liver cancer; María de Jesús was the only one who died in freedom in the mid-1990s.
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