Tuesday, November 29, 2011

News at Eleven: Mexican poet and peace activist

Javier Sicilia called during an appearance over the weekend at the 25th Guadalajara International Book Fair, or FIL, for "a cease-fire" between the government and Mexico's drug cartels on Dec. 24-25 so they can "reflect on what they are doing, what they are doing to the country."

"I ask for this truce as a momentary pause, not just in honor of Christmas, but to think about the harm we're doing to ourselves and what those guilty of murder and corruption are doing to themselves, and the damage done by authorities who do not fulfill their obligations," Sicilia said.

from Latin American Herald Tribune: Sicilia Calls for Christmas Truce in Mexico's Drug War

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