Mexico Drug War: Angels in Ciudad Juárez Try to Reduce Violence

Deeply poignant. These innocent, teenage "angels" want to "prick the consciences of people who have caused ... so much pain." Unfortunately, the cartel members--and some government officials--have lost their consciences. They are sociopaths. They have sold their souls to the devil. (See yesterday's post on the documentation of torture by the Mexican army and police.) 

NYTimes.com: "CIUDAD JUÁREZ, Mexico — Angels are not a common sight here in Mexico’s most violent border city, where the public cemetery is putrid and overflowing, and where a handful of churches worship the skeletal saint of death, Santa Muerte.

But at crime scenes and busy corners recently, more than a dozen angels have appeared — 10 feet tall, with white robes and wide feathered wings. The fact that these angels are mostly teenagers from a tiny evangelical church on a dirt road makes their presence no less striking: they carry signs to murder scenes that say “murderers repent." ... “We wanted to prick the consciences of the people who have caused this city so much pain,” Carlos Mayorga, 33, a leader of the group, said.”" read more