Movement for Peace with Justice: Calderon tells Javier Sicilia that Mexico drug war strategy will continue despite appeals

We really did not expect anything different to come from this public meeting.

Mexico drug war strategy will continue despite appeals from activists, Calderon says - latimes.com: "Mexican President Felipe Calderon on Thursday met face-to-face with activist-poet Javier Sicilia in a long and often colorful public meeting aimed at reaching a consensus on how to curb the country's rising drug-war death toll.

Sicilia demanded Calderon apologize for carnage that has left an estimated 40,000 dead, and demanded a change in the government's anti-crime strategy. But Calderon, flanked by Cabinet officials, repeated once more that it would be wrong to alter the basic thrust — a military-led campaign against the country's powerful cartels."