Why Such Extreme Violence?
My seatmate on the Caravan to the South was a mature woman from Cuernavaca, the birthplace of the Movement for Peace with Justice and Dignity. I asked her why she was on the journey. She responded that her son was a school mate and close friend of Juan Francisco, the murdered son of Javier Sicilia, the leader [...]
Read more →Drug War Meets Dirty War In Guerrero
As drug war violence spirals out of control in many parts of Mexico, people living in the countryside of the state of Guerrero are threatened by traditional forces of the Dirty War —the military, paramilitary groups, and corrupt political bosses—, but now also narco-paramilitaries and drug-trafficking organizations.
Read more →Mexican Constitution Now Recognizes Right to Food
Although the right to food is now recognized in the Constitution, poverty, hunger and exclusion in the country have worsened to the point that to put the right to food in practice requires a radical transformation in the economic model.
Read more →Fathers, Mothers and Lost Children Travel Together on the Caravan for Peace
The foundation of Mexico is family, the closely bonded, extensive networks of mothers, fathers and children, grandparents, aunts and uncles, cousins, brothers and sisters. This powerful, primal dynamic is the foundation of the Movement for Peace with Justice and Dignity. During the Movement’s recent Caravan to the South, it became poignantly clear that familial bonds provided [...]
Read more →Caravana al Sur – Slide show
The Caravan to the South of Mexico took place from Sept. 9 to 19, 2011. Organized by the Movement for Peace with Justice and Dignity, it seeks to end the Mexican government’s use of Mexican armed forces to fight the drug cartels. This strategy has led to further violence and the deaths and disappearances of [...]
Read more →On the Mexico-Guatemala Border, Migrants Demand End to the Violence
Mexico’s peace caravan visits the southern border, where Central American migrants report violence and abuse in their travels north.
Read more →Guerrero Protesters Demand Education, Not War
Several thousand people marched on Acapulco, Guerrero, this past Saturday chanting, “We don’t want war, we want education!” The march occurred during poet Javier Sicilia’s visit to the seaside city as his caravan of drug war victims makes its way to the Mexico-Guatemala border.
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