Church to PRD: Stop lawsuits, then we'll talk.

You really do get much further with a smile and a gun than with a smile alone, as Al Capone noted.
The PRD, after a series of vicious political attacks from the Catholic Church, finally launched a series of lawsuits, which clearly has worried the church. The most recent sign: Armando Martínez Gómez, legal representative of Cardinal Norberto Rivera (and, I assume, Hugo Valdemar, whom IFE recently found to have broken the law), said the church would be willing to talk with the PRD, but only if the party drops its lawsuits.

PRD's new national president, Jesús Zambrano, said he was willing to talk with Cardinal Rivera, but that the PRD would not retract the suits. Given the escalation of the church's rhetoric the past years - calling PRD fascists, an enemy of the faith, etc - PRD's conclusion seem to be that with the catholic high clergy, you do not get very far with a smile alone.