News Mexican cartel urges that innocents be kept out of drug war in video message

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Mexican cartel urges that innocents be kept out of drug war in video message​

Lizbeth Diaz, Stefanie Eschenbacher
Reuters
8 Jul 2022

Excerpt:

A video claiming to be from Mexico's powerful Jalisco New Generation Cartel (CJNG) circulated on social media on Friday, urging that fighting be kept between criminal groups and avoid innocents.

Two Jesuit priests and a tour guide were killed last month in a suspected run-in with a wanted drug trafficker in the border state of Chihuahua, a crime that shocked Mexicans and drew condemnation from Pope Francis.

"I ask you that the war remains between us, that we don't involve anyone who shouldn't be involved," said a man speaking Spanish in the video, which also showed masked, heavily armed people dressed in combat camouflage.

"We are people who are for the people," the man said.