The president of Mexico, Andrés Manuel López Obradorcriticized this Tuesday the 'National commitment to peace' that the Catholic Church proposed on Monday to the presidential candidates for “creating an environment that does not exist” in the face of the violence denounced by the religious institution.
“I don't agree with that, I mean, of course I respect churches a lot, I am very respectful of all beliefs, but politically I don't agree that they want to create an environment that doesn't exist,”
declared the president in his morning conference.
The Mexican leader referred to the document promoted by the Conference of the Mexican Episcopate (CEM) towards the June 2 elections with seven actions among which he calls for the “gradual withdrawal of the military,” attention to the “human rights crisis.” ”, and denounce violence.
The opponents Xóchitl Gálvez and Jorge Álvarez Máynez signed the commitment, while the ruling party Claudia Sheinbaum did the same but attached a document in which she stated her disagreements with the Catholic Church.
“I also do not agree with the view that fear, helplessness, distrust and uncertainty prevail,”
Sheinbaum added on Monday, rejecting claims that Mexico's security strategies are “insufficient.”
Without mentioning them directly, López Obrador questioned that “why are some of them being hypocritical by signing there, if from behind they are ordering that there be a dirty war? “Why throw the stone and hide your hand?”
The president questioned this type of pact during electoral times.
“I haven't seen it, but that is very common, especially in the anti-democratic period, they asked us when we were in the opposition to sign peace agreements, civility agreements,”
mentioned.
During his term, López Obrador has clashed with the Mexican Catholic Church, which he accused last year of supporting “the conservative bloc,” and has previously criticized it for not expressing the ideology in favor of the poor and against neoliberalism that he says he admires. of Pope Francis.
Tension between religious leaders and organized crime has grown this year in Mexico, where violence in February forced Christian churches to close in at least 10 municipalities in Chiapas, a state on Mexico's southern border.
Also in February, a peace negotiation between the Catholic Church and drug trafficking groups in the state of Guerrero, which is experiencing a wave of violence from organized crime, emerged.
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