One of Mexico’s best-known poets, Javier Sicilia, laid down his pen last
year after his 24-year-old son was murdered by drug traffickers in
Cuernavaca, Mexico. In his son’s memory, Sicilia created the Movement
for Peace with Justice and Dignity to urge an end to the drug violence —
violence that has left an estimated 60,000 dead, 10,000 disappeared,
and more than 160,000 Mexicans displaced from their homes over the past
six years. Sicilia is now in the United States to launch a month-long
peace caravan to "bring to the American people’s conscience their shared
responsibility for the thousands of dead, missing and displaced in the
drug war."Video
Source: Democracy Now!
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