A Mexican bishop has proposed a "social pact" that would include drug traffickers to tackle violence that has prompted calls for a rethink of President Andres Manuel Lopez Obrador's security policy.
Four police officers were shot to death after being drawn into an ambush in western Mexico, and as many as eight suspected attackers were killed in a gun battle with other police who rushed to the site, authorities said on Thursday.
Luis Joaquin Mendez, head prosecutor of Jalisco state, said that four municipal policemen in El Salto responded to a call late on Wednesday about armed men at a house.
Once they arrived, a woman answered the door and told them nothing was wrong, but shooters inside opened fire on the officers, some of whom were dragged into the home and killed,
MEXICO CITY, Mexico Pope Francis on Wednesday lamented the spiral of violence engulfing Mexico, after two Jesuit priests and a man seeking sanctuary were gunned down inside a church.
AFP/ MANILA BULLETIN The pope, himself a Jesuit, expressed sadness and dismay over the killings of men he called
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