Drug money built chapel in Mexico
I’ve been waiting for an English version of this.MEXICO CITY - A chapel where Roman Catholic priests celebrate Mass every Sunday bears a plaque thanking the donor who built it - the leader of one of Mexico’s most violent drug cartels.
The revelation has the church distancing itself from the property in central Mexico, while admitting it knows of other donations from drug traffickers.
“We know that the narcos … look for a way to redeem themselves in religious terms, by doing some good work. Obviously, sins cannot be washed away by a donation or a collection,” said the Rev. Hugo Valdemar, spokesman for the Archdiocese of Mexico, the country’s largest.
“We have examples of five or six cases of projects, generally in rural communities, where they don’t just build churches, they build roads and bridges and clinics,” he said.
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