Mexico | Protests | Drug War: "The explosion of popular protest against the violence creates a new factor in Mexico’s drug war, which has steadily intensified since President Felipe Calderon took power in 2006 and launched an offensive against gangs.
“There has been an important sea change of opinion,” said John Mill Ackerman of Mexico's National Autonomous University. “People are no longer buying the story that things have to get worse before they get better.”"
The MexicoBlog of the Americas Program, a fiscally sponsored program of the Center for Economic and Policy Research (CEPR), is written by Laura Carlsen. I monitor and analyze international press on Mexico, with a focus on security, immigration, human rights and social movements for peace and justice, from a feminist perspective. And sometimes I simply muse.
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