Brazen murders highlight the risks the country’s priests face every day as they tend to their communities
That policy resulted in some high-profile scalps – notably Arturo Beltrán Leyva who was – but also did little to bring peace. In fact, many believe such tactics served only to pulverize the world of organized crime, creating even more violence as new, less predictable factions squabbled for their piece of the pie.
When “El Chapo” was arrested in early 2016, Mexico’s president bragged: “Mission accomplished”. But the violence went on. By the time Peña Nieto left office in 2018, Mexico had suffered another record year of murders, with nearly 36,000 people slain.The leftwing populist Andrés Manuel López Obrador took power in December, promising a dramatic change in tactics. López Obrador, or Amlo as most call him, vowed to attack the social roots of crime, to more than 2.
Mexico now suffers an average of about 96 murders per day, with nearly 29,000 people killed since Amlo took office.Last year, three priests were murdered in Mexico. One was abducted, shot dead and left by the side of a road in the state of Guanajuato. Another was killed in the state of Durango after he got caught in the crossfire of a gun battle on his way to his church. A third was beaten to death inside his church in the state of Morelos in September.
Father Luis Gerardo Moro, leader of the Jesuits in Mexico, said his community did not believe in violence. “We are demanding a minimum respect for humanity,” he said, responding to the president’s remarks.Photograph: Reuters
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