whose son's murder inspired him to lead protest caravans against the drug war in Mexico, says he wants to resume the protest "from the other side of the problem."Sicilia said he wants to lead another caravan, this time from the Mexican border to Washington to demand an end to the drug war.
Winner of the 2009 Aguascalientes poetry prize--Mexico's most prestigious--Sicilia wrote his last verse this year after his 24-year-old son Juan Francisco was tortured and killed in March with six other people by an organized crime group in Cuernavaca.
from AFP: Mexican poet aims to take drug war protest to US
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