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Drug cartel offers ceasefire during papal visit
Feb 7, 2012, 21:16 GMT
Mexico City - A Mexican drug cartel has proposed a ceasefire with rival traffickers during a papal visit next month, local media reported Tuesday.
The cartel, which calls itself the Knights Templar, hung banners overnight around Guanajuato, a state capital in central Mexico, offering to halt its violence during Pope Benedict's March 23-26 visit to the region.
The banners called for a rival cartel, Nueva Generacion, or New Generation, to abide by the same ceasefire 'so that we can have peace' during the pope's visit.
Mexico's drug war has raged for several years among traffickers fighting for drug turf, as well as between the criminal gangs and security forces.
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