Mexico’s bishops have called for unity as the country deals with threats from US President Donald Trump, who promises to impose tariffs on Mexican exports if migrants continue crossing the US border and fentanyl is not stamped out. Source: Catholic Review.
The bishops also called on Mexico to confront “the culture of death and throwaway culture” as violence convulses swaths of the country.
Speaking in a video released on Monday, the bishops raised the contents of a February statement on national unity, saying, “We cannot help but consider that the policy of the new president of the United States of America towards Mexico in particular, and towards the world in general, is worrying.”
The bishops pointed out Mr Trump’s demands: combating drug cartels, addressing migration through Mexico and dealing with economic issues the US president considers unfavourable “according to his criteria”.
“Each of these issues can be resolved in a climate of unity among the different Mexican political forces to foster respectful dialogue and prudent openness toward the US government to agree on mutual collaboration,” the bishops said.
“We Mexicans are called to work together in the face of adversity, summoned by our different political authorities, starting with the president’s office, to overcome division and social confrontation, to continue with the dialogues in the construction of peace, to promote greater investments for economic development with better working conditions.”
The bishops’ admonishment for unity followed President Claudia Sheinbaum convening a mass rally on Sunday in central Mexico City, where she planned to announce retaliatory measures to tariffs imposed on Mexico five days earlier.
The bishops’ video cautioned, however, “We must accept and recognise that the real enemy is in our own country, where we need true national unity to overcome our serious internal problems that have not been properly addressed for years and are becoming increasingly worse.”
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Mexican bishops decry ‘culture of death’ in Mexico, reiterating calls for unity (By David Agren, OSV News via Catholic Review)
