Mexican state mourns peacemaker priest as cartel violence surges: ‘They want to intimidate us’
Murder of Father Marcelo Pérez comes amid surge of violence as cartels battle for control of strategic state
Amid incense and white lilies, thousands of mourners packed the town center of San Andrés Larráinzar, in Mexico’s mountainous southern state of Chiapas.
They had come to bid farewell to a beloved priest known as a peacemaker in a region racked by violence.
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