The Church in Mexico has called on the country’s new president, Claudia Sheinbaum Pardo, to address “the dominance of organised crime and criminal activity in general”. Source: CNA.
Ms Sheinbaum – a candidate of the political coalition “Let’s Keep Making History”– won Mexico’s presidential election earlier this year and was inaugurated yesterday.
The Mexican Bishops’ Conference offered “prayers and good wishes” for the beginning of the new administration, expressing its joy that for the first time the country has a woman president.
The bishops’ conference expressed its trust that Ms Sheinbaum “will know how to have great sensitivity and respect, promoting everything that redounds to the good and social development of all citizens”.
However, the bishops pointed out that “reality speaks for itself and demands, immediately,” certain actions.
Among them, the Mexican bishops highlighted the implementation of “public policies that guarantee citizen security, overcome poverty and inequality, and promote national unity and harmony among all.” According to the prelates, these policies must be aimed at “achieving the goal of social peace.”
The bishops also said the country needs a society in which both the government and citizens “respect the laws” and where people can once again “live in a true democratic rule of law.”
Another concern expressed by the bishops was the improvement of the Mexican education system, which they consider “recently neglected by public policies limited in resources and by a vision lacking a true humanism that forges the spirit” of children and adolescents.
They concluded their message by acknowledging that the country faces “great challenges” and called for reaching the necessary agreements with all political forces, “without annihilating minorities” to build “the project of the common good so that Mexican society can live in peace”.
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Church in Mexico calls on country’s new president to address high crime rate (By Diego López Colín, CNA)
