Thursday, May 10, 2012

Mexico’s Peace Movement and Javier Sicilia: One Year On

Mexico’s Peace Movement and Javier Sicilia: One Year On:

 "Little over a year ago, Javier Sicilia was simply a journalist, poet, teacher and father; he would finish 2011 as one of TIME magazine’s “People of the Year”. After his 24-year old son Juan and six friends were murdered by a gang in Cuernavaca, Morelos, on March 28, Sicilia became a full-time activist and one of the most eloquent critics of the Mexican government’s “war on drugs”. Last May, he led a 200,000-strong march on Mexico City to protest both the drug gangs and the government’s violent crackdown, becoming a spokesman for tens of thousands of families destroyed by the violence. "

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