Editor's Note: ­ This security-focused assessment is one of many such analyses found at Stratfor Threat Lens , a unique protective intelligence product designed with corporate security leaders in mind. Threat Lens enables industry professionals and organizations to anticipate, identify, measure and mitigate emerging threats to people, assets and intellectual property the world over. Threat Lens is the only unified solution that analyzes and forecasts security risk from a holistic perspective, bringing all the most relevant global insights into a single, interactive threat dashboard. Gunmen in Mexico ambushed three vehicles carrying three American women and 14 of their children in a remote part of Sonora state on Nov. 4, killing the women and six children, El Heraldo de Chihuahua reported. The families are part of a breakaway group from The Church of Jesus Christ of Latter-day Saints that settled in northern Mexico in the 1920s after being excommunicated for polygamy.