Their task is titanic, but so is their
determination to end the war on drugs.
The Caravan for Peace with Justice and
Dignity, a group originally composed of 110 Mexican fathers and mothers, wives
and husbands, sons and daughters — 49 of whom lost loved ones to the violence
of the drug war — arrives in our city tomorrow.
One of those mothers is Margarita López,
whose daughter, Yahaira Guadalupe Baena López, 19, was taken from her home in
Oaxaca by an armed group on April 13, 2011. She joined the caravan at its
inception.
“My daughter was innocent but the
authorities never took an interest in her disappearance, so I joined the
caravan,” said López. “I don’t want any more mothers to suffer the way I am
suffering.”
The group’s journey began August 12 in
San Diego and when it ends on Sept. 12, it will have traveled over 5,000 miles
and 25 cities including Los Angeles, Santa Fe, El Paso, Houston, Montgomery,
New Orleans, Chicago, New York and, finally, Washington, D.C.
“Our goal is to become citizen-diplomats
— to reach out to the people of the U.S.,” said Javier Sicilia, a distinguished
Mexican poet, and the man who conceived the caravan idea. Read more.
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