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PRESS RELEASE LaRouche: `The Targetting of Cardinal Sandoval Click here for a printable Spanish version. |
Leesburg, Sept. 29, 2023--Democratic presidential pre-candidate Lyndon H. LaRouche today issued a statement “to express my concern about the attempt by some people to invoke the name of anti-clericalism, to stir up what would be recognized as a Cristero War atmosphere in Mexico.'' LaRouche warned in particular that “the targetting of the Cardinal [of Guadalajara, Juan Sandoval Iniguez] is seen by experts in such matters as an attempt to reactivate a religious-warfare-like destabilization of Mexico.''
LaRouche was referring to reports in the Mexican media last week that Mexico's Attorney General, Rafael Macedo, had opened a criminal investigation into Cardinal Sandoval, his deceased mother, his numerous siblings, and others associated with him, on allegations of drug money laundering. The case was opened at the behest of Jorge Carpizo McGregor, Attorney General under President Carlos Salinas de Gortari (1988-1994). Carpizo submitted to the current Attorney General's office a document allegedly prepared by an unnamed Mexican government intelligence agency, which charges that Cardinal Sandoval and his predecessor, the murdered Cardinal Juan Jesus Posadas Ocampo, were part of a Vatican strategy to get resources from the drug trade, “a third way of financing.... Cardinal Sandoval Iniguez is the Papacy's man for the full development of the project of financing the Church through funds of suspicious origin,'' the document handed over by Carpizo reportedly says. Cardinal Sandoval maintains his innocence, and says that the charges are politically-motivated and relate to the cover-up of the Cardinal Posadas assassination. Carpizo was Attorney General at the time that Cardinal Posadas was murdered on May 24, 1993, and announced, within hours of the assassination, before any investigation had taken place, that Posadas was killed “by accident'' in crossfire between two rival drug gangs. Forensic evidence later proved that the 57 bullets which killed the Cardinal came from one direction only, at close range. The charges against Cardinal Sandoval have begun to polarize Mexico. For example, leading congressional figures have backed the investigation; and on Sunday, Sept. 28, tens of thousands of people in Guadalajara marched in defense of the Cardinal. The full text of LaRouche's comments are as follows:
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