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Los Ángeles Press [Ciudad de México, Mexico]
December 2, 2025
By Rodolfo Soriano-Núñez
Media in Spain identifies the priest only as Ramón LE, the Mexican media protects him further by identifying him only as Ramón N.
Were the priest’s superiors aware of similar aggressions to the one behind his extradition? Did they inform the Mexican bishops who received him? Did the Mexican bishops investigate?
This Monday, December 1, the EFE agency and other media in Spain reports a ruling from a top national court there, the Audiencia Nacional , authorizing the extradition to Mexico of a Spaniard national who is a Catholic priest.
In accordance with current in Spain, neither EFE nor the other media offer more details than the first name and the initials of the surnames of the extradited person: Ramón LE
As far as it is possible to know, this is a case dating back to 2022 in the state of Jalisco in what the media in Spain describes as a “refuge.” The victims were 13, 12 and 10 years old, two are women, although there are no further details about their identities.
They are identified as residents of a shelter dedicated to caring for “vulnerable population,” but it is also not clear whether the victims are Mexican nationals or from some other nationality, who would have been in Mexico due to the migration crisis being experienced at that time in the country.
The arrest warrant was issued in Mexico in July 2023. The arrest occurred on March 28 of this year in the city of Zaragoza. It is not clear whether in Spain Ramón LE is incardinated in the archdiocese of Zaragoza or in one of the other dioceses of the autonomous community of Aragon (Barbastro and Monzón, Huesca, Jaca, Tarazona and Teruel).
The way in which the justice systems of Spain and Mexico, as well as the media of both countries “report” about these cases, is another example of the problems that potential victims of sexual abuse, in religious or other contexts, face when trying to identify possible predators.
The fact that there is no precision about the name of the alleged aggressor and there is not even any precision about the place in Jalisco where the events occurred makes it extremely difficult for other victims to identify the person who may have assaulted them.
The story published yesterday on this issue, linked after this paragraph, reveals the negative effects of this way of managing access to information related to sexual abuse cases, clergy or otherwise.
More so, because there is abundant evidence that cases such as that of Ramón LE, whom the Mexican press, in compliance with Mexican laws, protects even further by identifying him only as Ramón N. , are not isolated and it is highly probable that there are more victims.
According to information from the EFE agency and other Spanish media, Ramón LE would now be 58 years old, so it is very possible that the two girls and a boy he attacked in Mexico are not his only victims. It would even be necessary to ask under what conditions he came to Mexico to exercise what appears to be a ministry.
If so, it would be necessary to involve in the investigation the diocese of origin in Aragon, Spain ( Zaragoza , Barbastro y Monzón, Huesca, Jaca, Tarazona or Teruel) and clarify if there were similar reports in Spain before he came to Mexico, at least in 2022, and if there were, clarify why he was sent to Mexico despite such reports or if, as if as it is usually the case, he was sent or allowed to come to Mexico, because he was already facing accusations in Spain.
It will also be necessary to clarify in which diocese in Jalisco the events occurred, since there are a minimum of six dioceses that incorporate territory from Jalisco in Western Mexico: Guadalajara , San Juan de los Lagos, Tepic, Colima, Ciudad Guzmán and Autlán and to also clarify if these dioceses asks of other dioceses and other countries for information about possible reports of priests that they receive, even temporarily, in their territory.
Of the Spanish dioceses, it is worth noting those of Huesca and Jaca. They are separate entities but led by Pedro Aguado Cuesta , a Spaniard bishop who spent time in Mexico as part of his assignment as superior of the Piarist order.
He now faces claims as to the way he allowed a Mexican priest to remain active in ministry despite repeated accusations of abuse against said priest, and the promises made at the time by Aguado Cuesta to at least one Mexican survivor.
The story linked after this paragraph, originally identified the survivor under the assumed identity of Hernán . He recently decided to litigate his case publicly under his real name: Javier Alcántara .