Mexico

Francis travels to Mexico’s Victims

Human rights, Migration, morality: The journey of Pope Francis to Mexico is political, and theological explosives. With his program, the Pontifex, the government and the clergy alike under pressure.

Six popes have Mexico already visited. But this time everything is different. The journey of Francis of 12. to 18. February in the largest Catholic country in the world is like a pilgrimage along the Latin American Evil: Flüchtlingsdrama and Frauenmorde in the North, Gefängnismeuterei,
Drugs and violence in the centre of the country and the external world is impoverished Mayans in the South.

The program is typical of Latin America with the portentous Gestures peppered. One of the most important is the worship service at the border fence to the United States in Ciudad Juarez. Sitting In the first row there, the relatives of the victims of
Iguala .

Ungesühnte Crime

The 43 students were probably from the drug mafia murdered, possibly by backers from the policy. Whether the massacre ever to be informed is questionable. “The Meeting is an important sign and increases the pressure on the government to finally get the education to advance,” says Jannika Röminger from the Latin America centre (LAZ). However, says the Mexikoexpertin, the human rights groups in the country, also: “The rule of law exists only formally. In reality, rule 98 per cent of impunity.”

Mexico’s former Zapatista leader, “Subcomandante Marcos,” cried out in 1994 in Chiapas, Mexico, to the resistance on

Approximately 27,000 people in Mexico as
“disappeared”. They are among the Victims of a Drogenkrieges the Land with violence covers. In the past ten years lost around 100,000 people in the hail of bullets the cartels in their lives, including many
Journalists,
Clergy, politicians and human rights activists.

Open letter to Francis

Immediately before the visit of the Pope have so many Mexican non-governmental organizations in an open letter to Francis turned. The Pope should, in his Meetings with government officials, the human rights situation in Mexico to appeal, it says in the Letter.

“The government of President Peña Nieto plays the serious violations of human rights down and treats them as isolated, individual cases”, claims the signatory to rely on the authority of Rome: “We are confident that your solidarity with the Victims, that helps in this country Believe in peace and justice are not lost.”

Mexico’s President Enrique Peña Nieto, an avowed Catholic, the papal moral precepts have to hear. Because the program of the Pontiff sees no Folklore Mariachi-chapels before, but visits to the problem areas of the country.

Sympathized with the Zapatistas in Chiapas: Samuel Ruiz, a peace activist and Bishop of San Cristóbal de las Casas

Return of the rebels

These include the Drogengewalt drawn States of Michoacán and
Chihuahua and Chiapas, with its predominantly indigenous population. In 1994, the Region was by the
Zapatistas movement in “Subcomandante Marcos” world-famous.

The Mexican Bishop Raúl Vera was, at the time of Pope John Paul II in the rebel diocese of San Cristóbal de Las Casas have been sent to the reigning Bishop Samuel Ruiz (1924 – 2011) to slow down, because the representative of liberalisation theology, the indigenous population and the uprising of the Zapatistas supported.

But Vera rather United he for his part with Ruiz, fulfilled his mission not and fell in Rome in disgrace. 1999 Vera from Chiapas in the North-East of Mexico’s displaced, and the Bishop of Saltillo appointed. By now, the words of the 71-Year-old again weight, because he is considered a Confidant of the Pope.

Also in Chiapas, it is now calmer, but of the massive poverty of the people there has not changed, white Raúl Vera. “I’m so glad the Pope to Chiapas drives”, explained the Bishop, in an interview with DW. “There is also the tomb of Samuel Ruiz visited, is a unique character. The gesture is so strongly speaking to the virgin of Guadeloupe blessed!”

The Mexican Bishop Raúl Vera feels through the visit of the Pope encourages

Secretive Abuse

The virgin of Guadeloupe is Mexico’s patron Saint. For a long time, she was of the Catholic Church in Mexico reviled, just as Samuel Ruiz and Raúl Vera. The papal tribute to the two Mexican Befreiungstheologen entails therefore also a kirchenpolitische message.

“Over the years, the Catholic hierarchy in Mexico, a devoted ally of the government and has benefited from this,” writes Mexican author Jorge Zepeda Patterson in the Spanish newspaper “El Pais”. “Now, some are worried. To right: The reforms of the Pope to question the stiffened standards of the Church.”

That’s not enough. In Mexico, fighting in the Catholic Church with ungesühnten crime. So was the
Sex abuse scandal at the infamous “Legionnaires of Christ” for a long time by the Mexican clergy, concealed and covered.

Only in 2006 was Ordensgründer Marcial Maciel, the decades of seminarians sexually abused by the Vatican dispatched. He died in 2008, without ever to court the accused was to be.