Posts Tagged ‘cartels’

Death & Life in Mexico

Posted by David and Sherri Pryor on Saturday, September 25th, 2010

DeathMission work has been fraught with risk from the beginning & Mexico is no exception. Reaching tribal groups in the Sierras was always risky due to the lawlessness inherent in the mountains. That lawlessness has now spread to the cities. Between the violence of criminal cartels, the government’s efforts to stop them & general crime having grown explosively, modern Mexico has become a dangerous place. (more…)

Helpless & Hopeless

Posted by David and Sherri Pryor on Monday, May 4th, 2009

Worshipers carrying the icon of the Christ of Health If the economic downturn, cartel wars, & rampant street crime were not enough, now the people of Mexico are also suffering from the effects of the Swine Flu epidemic. I recently received a vivid reminder of just how all of these problems converge & add to the helplessness & hopelessness Mexicans feel daily.

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