Papal Nuncio visits Mexico town hit by drone, cartel attacks

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MEXICO CITY -- Papal Nuncio Mons. Franco Coppola paid a visit Friday to a remote mountain hamlet in southern Mexico that has been ravaged by killings, drug cartel turf battles and even exploding drones attacks on police. Coppola offered a mass in the town of Aguililla as a show of solidarity with the town’s residents, who have been largely cut off from the outside world after warring cartels closed off roads. He and residents walked through the streets of Aguililla with an image of Christ, to symbolically reclaim roadways where dozens of bodies — some decapitated — have been left in recent months. “These streets that had been taken over by violence, were walked by the people who joyously followed Christ,” said Coppola. “This town has not been crushed. Clearly, it has suffered serious blows, but has not been crushed.”