Ernesto El Neto Piñón, leader Los Mexicles street gang and who was serving a 224-year sentence, remained on the run as of Tuesday, two days after fleeing a northern Mexico prison.
The bishops’ statement followed the slayings of two Jesuits and a person they were protecting in their parish a crime attributed to a local crime boss in a part of the country dominated by drug cartels.
Mexican authorities have located the bodies of two Jesuit priests and a tour guide shot dead this week in a gang-ravaged area of northern Mexico after a major search.