The Archdiocese calls for the Day of the Virgin of Guadalupe to be a date to “silence the weapons” and begin a period in which “respect and dialogue” prevail, in which political groups also abandon communication. hostile” and “polarizing.”
“We echo the message of love that the little brunette of Tepeyac gives us through San Juan Diego (…) and that reminds us that this promise of consolation can be our strength that cements a more just and peaceful nation. May the message of Guadalupana motivate so that next December 12 is the date on which the weapons will be silenced because criminal groups and organized crime accepted this national truce of peace,” he mentioned.
He asked that the “truce” be the “gift” to the Virgin of Guadalupe and the Child Jesus and that it endure “as the commitment of a people that seeks to heal their wounds and build a new path.”
In the first two months of Claudia Sheinbaum’s six-year term, which began on October 1, the struggles and rearrangements of organized crime groups have left more than 4,000 intentional homicides and at least five massacres.
The epicenters of violence are Guanajuato, Sinaloa and the State of Mexico, although other entities have had a marked increase in murders such as Tabasco, the birthplace of former President Andrés Manuel López Obrador.
During October – the month Claudia Sheinbaum took office – 2,293 intentional homicides were recorded; in November, 2,234, and on the first day of December 78 more murders, for a daily average of 75, according to the daily homicide report prepared by the Ministry of Security and Citizen Protection.
