Catholic newspaper takes Mexican president to task for joking about murders

The archdiocesan newspaper was unstinting in its reflection on López Obrador: “He is not afraid of being ridiculous, which has become a form of governance. With the response he gave, which we all know, to the matter of the five young people who disappeared in Lagos de Moreno, he not only shows a lack of sensitivity but also perversion.”

Five childhood friends, ranging in age from 19 to 22, got together for the annual fair at Lagos de Moreno, a colonial city in the state of Jalisco. They were last seen playing soccer some three miles outside of the city. While their bodies have not been identified, images abound on the internet of the young men bound, gagged, and looking fearfully at the camera. Investigators later identified the place of their probable murder. Human remains have been found not far from the killing field. Media reports suggest that they were brutally murdered by cartel thugs when they…