Latin American Herald Tribune - Mexican State Official Sacked Over Sicilia Case: "The public safety secretary in Mexico’s Morelos state was removed from his post over the weekend in response to the killings last month of seven young men, one of whom was the son of poet Javier Sicilia, in Cuernavaca.
Gaston Menchaca was replaced on Sunday by retired Gen. Gilberto Toledano, the Morelos state government said in a statement posted on its Web site.
Toledano has held military, diplomatic and other posts during his career.
Javier Sicilia called for marches against violence that drew thousands of people last Wednesday into the streets in cities across Mexico.
The poet has been staging a vigil in the main plaza in Cuernavaca, the capital of Morelos, scheduled to end on Wednesday.
Sicilia has demanded that the Morelos state government bring those responsible for killing his son, Juan Francisco, and the other six young men to justice.
The killings were apparently carried out by drug traffickers."
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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