Church leaders join Mexicans' call for peace, new public policies in drug war

Submitted on May 11, 2011
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David Agren | Catholic News Service
Tens of thousands of people march in Mexico City May 8 as part of a campaign against violence. About 300 people started the march in Cuernavaca May 5 and were joined by thousands of others.
Tens of thousands of people march in Mexico City May 8 as part of a campaign against violence. About 300 people started the march in Cuernavaca May 5 and were joined by thousands of others.
CNS photo/Henry Romero, Reuters
MEXICO CITY — Tens of thousands of Mexicans silently streamed through the Mexican capital, calling for peace and new public policies in the drug war to end a wave of violence that has claimed more than 36,000 lives over the past four years. Catholic leaders were prominent in the May 8 march, which began in Cuernavaca, 40 miles south of Mexico City, three days earlier. It gained increasing numbers, media attention and controversy as it converged on the capital for a rally in which many participants chanted slogans calling for the departure of President Felipe Calderon.

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