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Article: Hope teases Mexico City as democracy glimmers. (new mayor, Cuauhtemoc Cardenas causes the city's impoverished to hope for a better day)
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- National Catholic Reporter
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- January 16, 1998
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MEXICO CITY -- Darkness fell as Fr. Salvador Lopez Mora began Mass on a side street in Colonia Jalalpa Las Torres, a hilly, poor neighborhood. Forty people, mostly women and small girls, gathered for the service.
His short sermon urged his parishioners to remember to live their lives in dignity, acting not only in good faith as Catholics but also as good citizens in their society.
The message was particularly important, Lopez said, on the eve of the inauguration of Mexico City's first democratically elected mayor, Cuauhtemoc Cardenas, who Dec. 5 took the helm of a city rife with poverty, unemployment, street crime, corruption, environmental pollution ...