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Can a Grieving Poet's Movement for Peace Save Mexico?new

On a broiling mid-June afternoon in Juarez, Javier Sicilia stepped on to a makeshift stage in a downtown park to address at least 2,000 of his fellow grieving Mexicans. The crowd applauded wildly as the soft-spoken, 54-year old poet began to speak in measured tones about creating a national movement to “save our Democracy.”
The Texas Observer  |  Melissa del Bosque  |  07-08-2011  |  Drugs

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