Mexico City, Mexico (CNA) — The Archdiocese of Mexico is calling on local officials to improve security after a package containing explosives was mailed to the archdiocesan chancery.
“We will take basic security measures,” Father Hugo Valdemar, spokesman for the archdiocese, said. “This can’t be taken lightly as this is a threatening situation.”
On Nov. 25, Mexico City police investigated and removed the package, which appears to have been sent by local anarchist group Liberacion Total. The same group was responsible for setting an armored car on fire in the Mexican capital on Nov. 5.
Father Valdemar reported that the archdiocese’s Cardinal Norberto Rivera is unshaken by the incident.
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A short article of no consequence? If you are a member of the church hierarchy in Mexico you probably won’t think so. Don’t forget that Cardinal Juan Jesus Posadas Ocampo (of Mexico) was killed with 6 other people in the parking lot of the Guadalajara, Mexico International Airport on May 24, 1993. All this was supposedly linked to drug cartels, but Cardinal Posada’s successor Cardinal Juan Sandoval claims the murder was “politically motivated.” It is not surprising that this sort of thing should be happening in a country that has been violently anti-Church since the Mexican Revolution of 1910, almost without cease. It’s a case of the Cristeros vs the bad guys all over again.
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