Pope Francis Visits Poorest Parts of Mexico
BLITZER: Pope Francis is in one of the poorest parts of Mexico today. After spending the week in Mexico City, he's in Chiapas State, in the southern part of the country today. This part of Mexico is heavily populated by indigenous people. Just a while ago, he celebrated mass in indigenous languages.</s>BLITZER: Rosa Flores is there in Chiapas for us. Rosa, last year, the pope apologized to the peoples in South America for what he called crimes by the Catholic Church, and today, he addresses similar issues in North America. What was his bottom line message today?</s>ROSA FLORES, CNN CORRESPONDENT: You know, he focused on the environment, Wolf. He focused on his encircle on the environment, mentioning that among the poorest of the poor, is Mother Earth. And then he said, he looked at all of the people in the crowd, and said, you know, you, the indigenous, have been used and abused by just so many for centuries, including many elites. Take a listen.</s>POPE FRANCIS (through translation): Some have considered your values, culture and traditions to be inferior. Others, intoxicated by power, money and market trends have stolen your lands or done things which contaminated them. How sad this is.</s>FLORES: He also said that in modern day, we use and abuse the earth as well. And that we have a lot to learn from the indigenous people -- Wolf?</s>BLITZER: Rosa, the trip is certainly without -- isn't without controversy. On Wednesday, the pope scheduled to say mass in Juarez, near a fence separating the U.S./Mexico border. This was met with some criticism here in the United States, especially from some political types, like Donald Trump, for example. What kind of reaction though is it getting on the Mexican side of the border?</s>FLORES: You know, people in Mexico see it very differently, Wolf. They think about the 80,000 people who have died in the drug war since 2006. They think about those routes, those smuggling routes that smuggle not only drugs, but also people, and about the $19 to $29 billion that the American consumer pays for drugs. So it's very personal for people in Mexico. And many are offended by what Donald Trump has said from the beginning of his campaign, calling Mexicans rapists and criminals. It hits people here in the heart. So what they're hoping to hear from Pope Francis are words of hope and mercy.</s>BLITZER: Rosa Flores covering the pope's visit to Mexico. Rosa, thank you very much. Up next, just when you thought the presidential race here in the United States couldn't get anymore intense, a U.S. Supreme Court vacancy is stirring things up out there on the campaign trail. Our panel is standing by to take a closer look at how the Supreme Court fight is affecting the race for the White House.