Movement for Peace with Justice: In Mexico, Growing Popular Movement Calls for End to Drug War

From The Atlantic magazine, an overview of the movement led by Javier Sicilia

In Mexico, Growing Popular Movement Calls for End to Drug War - Larry Kaplow - International - The Atlantic: "(Javier) Sicilia ... wants widespread social renewal, not a peace that subjugates Mexicans to a new conspiracy between pols and narcos. His call for a dialogue about legalizing drugs and ending U.S. assistance to Mexico's military is unlikely to go over well in Washington,....

Closely followed in the press, Sicilia has the public eye and seems besieged by everyone with a cause -- indigenous rights, election reform, feminicide. He has trouble saying 'no' to such groups asking for his support, in part because he sees them all as stemming from the same institutional rot and impunity that breeds criminality. Even the dead criminals, he says, should be mourned as war victims."