The Conference of the Mexican Episcopate (CEM) pointed out that the homicide of Carlos Manzomayor of Uruapanadds to a series of murders of people who have dared to raise their voices and confront the lack of Rule of Law on their lands, businesses and other spaces.
He highlighted that the mayor “openly challenged the violent state that existed in his municipality… Today it is no longer enough to apprehend the murderer: we must decisively combat the cause of all these murders.”
The Catholic church He pointed out that the ordinary presence of armed groups, “which control the public life of citizens in various regions of the country, is the real crime to be faced.”
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And he highlighted that roadblocks, land dispossession and constant threats to producers, merchants and rulers “reflect a serious weakening of the constitutional order that governments, at the municipal, state and federal levels, are obliged to guarantee.”
The religious institution demanded that the authorities combat the true crime with determination and intelligence, “which is not only the tragic and outrageous death of a merchant or a mayor, as they were. Bernardo Bravo and Carlos Manzo, but the threatened lives of thousands of citizens who every day see their freedoms violated when moving and developing their commercial and recreational activities.”
Murder of Carlos Manzo joins that of Bernardo Bravo in Michoacán
Just the last October 20also in MichoacanBernardo Bravo, leader of the lemon producers of the Apatzingan Valleywho had raised his voice against extortion in the region.
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The church also called on “all Mexicans who are causing this fratricidal violence to stop it and respect the lives of all, because each brother is a gift from God for whom we will be held accountable when we are before him.”
And he remembered the verse of the The Bible, Genesis 4:9where God asks: “Cain, where is your brother?”