Thousands greet Pope Benedict XVI on his first visit to Mexico, as he denounces drug-related violence in the country Pope Benedict has arrived in Mexico promising to “unmask the evil” of drug trafficking in a country ravaged by gang violence that has killed 50,000 people in the past five years. The pope began his three-day visit to the world’s second-most populous Catholic state in the central city of Leon, where he received one of the most exuberant welcomes of any of his foreign trips. Tens of thousands of people, 20 deep in some places, lined the streets on his 22-mile (35-km) drive through the city

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