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Cardinal Norberto Rivera Carrera has served as archbishop of Mexico, one of the most complex archdioceses in the world, since 1995. Rivera Carrera, 62, is a traditionalist on doctrine and liturgy, and like many other Latin American churchmen, he is a strong advocate of social justice. His criticism of globalization and political corruption so annoyed Mexico's Salinas government that it threatened to adopt a law forbidding priests from commenting on politics. A conservative on virtually all church matters, in 1990, he closed a seminary that he charged was teaching "Marxism" under the guise of liberation theology. Carrera was ordained at 24 and was elevated to cardinal in February 1998.