Should Mexico Call for a Cease-Fire with Drug Cartels? - TIME: "The image of seven corpses of young men and women who had been tortured, murdered and dumped in a car was depressingly familiar in drug war torn Mexico. But unlike thousands of other killings, one victim of last week's multiple homicide in the spa town Cuernavaca had a well-known father and his grief gained national attention.
The journalist and poet Javier Sicilia led a march to commemorate the death of his son and friends, who appear to be an innocent victims caught up in the violence. In the media spotlight, Sicilia said what has been on the mind of many weeping parents. The war on drugs is not working, he cried, the government has to make a truce with cartels. 'Drug trafficking goes on. The United States doesn't care, and is not helping us at all,' Sicilia told reporters. 'The mafias are here. We should make a pact.'"
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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