Movement for Peace with Justice: Poet Javier Sicilia Condemns Mexico’s Drug Violence

An introduction to Javier Sicilia, the poet and novelist who has become the voice of Mexican opposition to the war on drugs

Poet Javier Sicilia Condemns Mexico’s Drug Violence - NYTimes.com: "As a poet, novelist and essayist, Javier Sicilia tapped a deep strain of Catholicism to obsess over “the mystery of God in a broken world,” as he put it two years ago when he was awarded Mexico’s top poetry prize.

Now that his own world had been shattered by the killing of his son in March — an innocent, the police said, caught up in a drug-trafficking attack that captivated the nation — Mr. Sicilia, 56, said he had kept his faith but had felt it sink to a “dark, deep place.” So he turned to that other mystery, poetry."