Posted on 07/14/2022 6:25:46 PM PDT by marshmallow
Mexico City Newsroom, Jul 8, 2022 / 15:36 pm A report by the Mexican Catholic Multimedia Center (CCM) shows that from 1990 to 2022, the violence in Mexico has claimed the lives of one cardinal and 57 priests.
The document also notes that in the first three and a half years of President Andrés Manuel López Obrador’s six-year term, seven priests have been murdered in the country.
In perhaps the most shocking case, the archbishop of Guadalajara, Cardinal Juan Jesús Posadas Ocampo, was gunned down at the city airport on May 24, 1993.
“The official thesis at that time was that the cardinal was ‘confused’ with a high-ranking organized crime boss; however, some sources point out that the latest investigations agree with Cardinal Sandoval Iñiguez that it was a ‘homicide by state,’” the CCM report states.
In a May 2016 video message, Sandoval, the archbishop emeritus of Guadalajara, said that according to information he has, the killing was orchestrated by the director of the Federal Judicial Police, who in turn got his orders from the attorney general. The case remains unsolved.
The CCM director, Father Omar Sotelo, said that the report, which can be accessed on the center’s website, is a way of collaborating “with the initiative for the (July 10) Day for Prayer for Peace in Mexico” called by the Mexican Bishops’ Conference, the Conference of Major Superiors of Religious of Mexico, and the Mexican Province of the Society of Jesus.
Church leaders have asked that “all the priests, religious men and women who have been murdered in the country be remembered” in all the Masses to be celebrated on July 10.
They also encouraged the faithful that “as a prophetic sign of our Church, in the Eucharist on July 31 we pray for the victimizers, we pray.......
(Excerpt) Read more at catholicnewsagency.com ...
Mexico has really gone to hell in a hand basket. Back in the 1980s people used to go for holiday there all the time. Many people moved there because you could live like a king on your retirement money,
It’s really a shame what has happened there. Now much of the country is not even controlled by its own government. Just criminal cartels.
And yes, our laws and policies cause this situation.
It also wouldn’t be too surprising if some three letter agency is actively working to weaken Mexico.
“Now much of the country is not even controlled by its own government. Just criminal cartels.”
I sometimes wonder. I wonder, if maybe just maybe the Mexican government is just may be responsible for some of the violence that is blamed on the cartels. Or maybe one or two or more three letter American government agencies.
Stop wondering. It’s what’s been going on along that border for decades.
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