The Gotham of Mexico

It's a place where confusion clings to people's hearts like the smog cloud that hovers over the city. Corruption and dishonesty run from your neighbor's door to the mayor's mansion. Crime and violence call it a happy home.

Who can save Mexico City? Is there a Batman waiting in the shadows?

Like any major city, Mexico City has its days in the sun, but too often it settles for the polluted rain that falls daily in the summers. After two years here, I have walked through the sun and the rain. I do find it far too easy to let one day's rain dampen my whole week. This place can eat up the best of men, as evidenced by the still seedling movement of true Gospel transformation.

Yet, I still firmly believe that the dawn waits just over the horizon. But this generation must arise to battle this darkness head on. This city doesn't need a Batman, it needs a whole army of them.

Crime wave

— A record 2,500 drug-related murders were committed in Mexico last year

— In the first six months of this year there were 323 reported kidnappings in Mexico City

August 1

— The decomposed body of the son of a businessman is found in a car

August 16-17

— Nine people were killed in Cuidad Juárez, and 21 people died in Creel

August 23

— A state police chief was kidnapped and killed, a police officer was killed in Tabasco and nine people were murdered in Chihuahua state

August 28

— Eleven decapitated men were found in Mérida, capital of Yucatán

August 31

— Anti-crime march of more than 100,000 people in Mexico City

September 1-5

— Eighteen decapitated bodies discovered across the country

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