MEXICO CITY (AP) — A retired Roman Catholic bishop famous for his efforts to mediate between drug cartels in Mexico has been kidnapped, Mexico’s Council of Bishops said Monday.
Church leadership in Mexico said that Msgr. Salvador Rangel disappeared on Saturday and called on his captors to release him, in a statement.
The council said Rangel was in poor health and begged the kidnappers to allow him to take his medication as “an act of humanity.”
Rangel was bishop of the notoriously violent diocese of Chilpancingo-Chilapa, in the southern state of Guerrero, where drug cartels have been waging battles for years. In an effort later endorsed by the government, Rangel tried to convince gang leaders to stop the bloodshed and make deals.
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