Well-known priest shot dead after officiating mass in Mexico state wracked by cartel violence
Hundreds gathered Monday to mourn Catholic priest Marcelo PĂ©rez, an activist for Indigenous peoples and farm laborers who was killed in the southern Mexico state of Chiapas. It was a killing that many say was a tragedy foretold, in a state where drug cartels have caused thousands of people to flee their homes. Mourners gathered…