Mexican cartel boss’ arrest raises old suspicions of drug alms

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This is a CNS article by way of Crux. I’m not sure where this should go. One time, someone told me about organized crime donating to the Church too in that American city. So, that seemed similar.

Mexican cartel boss’ arrest raises old suspicions of drug alms​

David AgrenAug 29, 2020 CATHOLIC NEWS SERVICE

MEXICO CITY — No sooner had federal forces arrested José Antonio Yépez Ortiz — a crime boss known as “El Marro,” or the sledgehammer — than stories surfaced of his supposed generosity with the Catholic Church and devotion to Our Lady of Guadalupe.

El Marro led a fearsome crime organization, the Santa Rosa de Lima cartel, which siphoned gasoline from Pemex pipelines and fenced it, among other illegal activities. This turned the state of Guanajuato, the country’s conservative, Catholic heartland, into the most murderous state in Mexico. He also built a shrine to Our Lady of Guadalupe outside his home in the town of Santa Rosa de Lima and maintained another shrine in the community.

“I know that El Marro has respected the church, but not in another way,” Bishop Benjamin Castillo Plascencia of Celaya told local media after the arrest, when asked about donations known as “narcolimosnas,” or drug alms. “I don’t think there’s anything. If not, let them prove it.”
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I’d remind someone too, the article talks about Priests that have been killed in Mexico. So, this is certainly nothing to take in stride but very seriously. The article even mentions it.
 
It’s plagued the Italian Church for decades and decades ie. the Mafia using cosy relations with some in high places in the Church to launder money and legitimize their evil agenda.

Pope Francis is calling for authentic devotion to the Blessed Virgin Mary to be freed from “superstructures, powers or conditioning that does not correspond to the Gospel criteria of justice, liberty, honesty, and solidarity.” The exhortation comes in a letter, made public on Thursday, which is addressed to the President of the Pontifical International Marian Academy, Father Stefano Cecchin.

In his letter, the Pope takes note of an ad hoc Department created within the Academy to study criminal and mafia phenomena, precisely in order “to free the figure of Our Lady from the influence of criminal organizations.”

 
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