In his participation in the event, Aguilar, who is also the bishop of Celaya, noted the proximity of the 2024 elections, in which Mexicans will vote for a new president, new federal senators, and representatives as well as different officials at the state and local level.
“There are a lot of people that we are going to elect and they are going to come around to your community,” the prelate said. “We have to tell them that we need security, peace, a government that does its job,” he said.
“They are our servants and we must speak to them with truth and charity but make demands of them,” he added.
Aguilar highlighted the will of the Catholic Church to work to promote peace in the face of the growing violence racking the country.
“We have tried to create all these synergies and involve all of the laity, movements, institutions,” he explained.
The prelate also stressed the need for “everyone’s effort” to address “not only the data, the statistics” of violence, but also to take up the work for peace, since “we are all co-responsible.”