A 34-kilometer human chain accompanied the first run of the Pope

Thousands of people were on the streets of Guanajuato, on their way from the airport to  residence. "Benedict, brother, you're Mexican!" they chanted


 
 Credits: Infobae Tens of thousands of Mexicans celebrated jubilantly in the streets and roads of Guanajuato, center of the country, the arrival of Pope Benedict XVI, who expect a message of peace on his first visit to this country, the second that makes America America. After a first stage in Mexico, the newly-started apostolic visitation will continue from 26 to 28 March in Cuba, the second phase of what will be the pope's first trip to Spanish-speaking American countries.
 In the Bajio International Airport, located in the town of Silao, and on board the popemobile Pope Ratzinger heard shouts and songs like "It looks, feels, the pope is present!" and an affectionate "Benedict, brother, you're Mexican".
 Along the 34 kilometers between the airport from the College of Miraflores, in the center of the city of Leon, tens of thousands of people waved white flags and yellow colors of the Vatican State, and made to feel the passing of Pope .
 Some 120,000 people, according to the Archdiocese of León, and 600 000 according to official figures, the sun endured the passing of Pope, who arrived in Mexico at 16.12 local time (22.12 GMT) and left the airport an hour later to complete the course of an hour to the College Miraflores, and overnight.
 Earlier, President of Mexico, Felipe Calderon, and Pope Benedict XVI gave welcome speeches and end of both the folkloric ballet at the University of Guanajuato danced to the highest spiritual leader of the Catholic Church. At times, the shouts of joy and desire to become the Pope prevented the speakers talk.
The pope received a wooden box hand painted with soil from several states of Mexico that gave him "three children who come from rural communities, some of them indigenous," he told EFE Samuel Najera, Director of Communications and PressMexican Bishops' Conference (CEM). "We had announced that this would commemorate the arrival of Pope John Paul II, who kissed land, soil, the country he visited for the first time. Now the sign is given to Benedict XVI" he added.
 Then it was the turn of a large group of mariachis, wearing their best clothes, light colored, who sang several popular songs among which were The sound of the black and Guanajuato Highway, which ignited the minds of hundreds of people that greeted the arrival of the pontiff.
 Throughout the tour, the pope could have with a given population in a state with 93.9% of Catholic population, a percentage higher than the 83.9% national average, according to EFE said Father Jorge Raul Villegas, of the Archdiocese of León.
 Ads banners and large installed by parishioners, most of the messages were light-hearted and were welcome but had a more politically charged, as one located on Avenida Lopez Mateos de Leon: "Pope prays for violence is over and peace returns. "
 A woman of 65, Maria Picon Baltasar de Leon, who was spending the Pope with his two grandchildren, was grateful for having seen the popemobile, even so fleeting. "It was a very historic thing that never happened. It's a great thrill for all the people of Leon," he added. The woman waiting for Benedict XVI "a message to all young people, so you always have peace and all children grow up in an atmosphere of peace."
 Some people complained that, by the speed that brought the popemobile, they could not see well the Pontiff: "Good lord, was flying. Seems that happened in the plane," warned a woman who saw him pass in front of a hotel .
 Check the operation was calm, told Reuters spokesman municipal Public Security Secretariat, Gabriel Cordero, who said that nothing had to meet two people for heat stroke.
 At nearly 85 years, the twenty third trip of Benedict XVI is the first by Mexico as pontiff.Remain until Monday, when travel to its next stage, Santiago de Cuba.