News at Eleven: [Javier] Sicilia and the other activists,

who will meet with Mexican lawmakers next Thursday, wore clocks around their necks to symbolize their demand that lawmakers get back to work.

On April 27, two days before the end of Congress' last ordinary session, the Mexican Senate approved the political reform measure--which would allow citizens to run for president or any other public office as independent candidates and also enable local and federal lawmakers to seek re-election.

The bill was sent to the lower house but has stalled there because of the long recess; debate is not scheduled to begin until the next legislative session gets underway in September.

from Latin American Herald Tribune: Poet Calls on Congress to Reform Mexico's Political System
then Troy Media: Poet fights futile war on Mexico's murders

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