Movement for Peace with Justice: Mass Protests Finally Incite Public Discussion About The Drug War’s Forgotten Victims

From the New Republic, a look at the personal experiences motivating the Caravan for Peace and the public dynamic that has been created as a result.

Mexico: Mass Protests Finally Incite Public Discussion About The Drug War’s Forgotten Victims | The New Republic: "“What the movement has done is open a period in which the victims have had the opportunity to recount their stories, transcending their anonymity by speaking,” argues Edgar Cortez, an investigator at the Mexican Institute of Human Rights. “[But] the crucial point is, what do you do with that?”

Yet its first step has been a huge one: breaking the public’s silence over the drug war. That alone is magnetic for the countless people in Mexico who have suffered in recent years. “What I know is that this movement has to continue and it has to be pacifistic,” said Robert Galván, (whose son disappeared in January).... “Because, when we fight violence with more violence, everything simply falls apart.”"