Organized crime ‘rules’ in several states in Mexico, cardinal warns

Organized crime ‘rules’ in several states in Mexico, cardinal warns

Cardinal Francisco Robles Ortega, archbishop of Guadalajara in Jalisco state in Mexico, warned this week that “at the level of many municipalities, at the level of several states, the government, the decisions, are in the hands of organized crime.”In a May 3 press conference, the Mexican cardinal noted that “this is nothing new; it’s what the people experience.”The cardinal said this in response to a question from the press regarding recent cont…