Thieves are puncturing fuel pipelines in Mexico and siphoning profits from the national oil company.
Latin America
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Catholic leaders: Dialogue between U.S. and Cuba must continue
Cardinal Jaime Ortega said “resorting to old models” and applying them presently to Cuba can “overshadow or delay” the resolution of conflicts between the two countries.
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Pope Francis will meet with Venezuela bishops as crisis deepens
The meeting comes in the midst of an ongoing national crisis in Venezuela marked by daily protests that have lasted more than 70 days and by acts of repression from the forces of President Maduro’s government.
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El Salvadoran Jesuits seek freedom for military leader implicated in 1989 killings
The Jesuits believe Benavides is a “scapegoat” for those who ordered the 1989 UCA massacre and were never punished. The Jesuits consider the case against the killers closed but continue to seek clarity on the intellectual authors of the crime.
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Meet El Salvador’s first cardinal: a man of the people who was close to Oscar Romero
Rosa Chavez has a reputation as a man of the people, warm and quick to smile.
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Malnutrition in Venezuela is now a crisis
With soaring food prices and a free-falling economy, child malnutrition in Venezuela has crossed the threshold of a humanitarian crisis.
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Pope Francis wants synod dedicated to people in Amazon, archbishop says
Pope Francis is considering dedicating a meeting of the Synod of Bishops to the concerns of the indigenous people of the Amazon region.
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Is statehood a way out of Puerto Rico’s fiscal crisis?
“Puerto Rico’s problem is that it’s an island of U.S. citizens who don’t have citizens’ rights—to vote in U.S. elections or have voting representatives in Congress.”
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Website details the life of Father Stanley Rother, who will soon be beatified
The Archdiocese of Oklahoma City has opened a website detailing the life, as well as steps toward sainthood, of Father Stanley Rother.
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Latin American bishops condemn violence in Venezuela
Weeks of large-scale street demonstrations have led to violent clashes with police, leaving nearly 40 people dead and drawing international condemnation.