Cuernavaca March Begins: “It Seems Calderón Didn't Hear Me,” Says Javier Sicilia http://www.narconews.com/Issue67/article4407.html

Cuernavaca, Mexico: The march has begun! People punctually gathered at the Paloma de la Paz statue. Joined by Julian Le Baron and Patricia Duarte, family members of those who have been murdered, at 7:10 a.m. Javier Sicilia gave a press conference where he urged the citizens:“We have to go there and we have to be united as citizens and retake our role that requires us to walk acting in what we the citizens want and hope and is the consensus of all.”He invited them to march in silence—to stop the war and for a just Mexico in peace—for three reasons:“...Because the pain is so much, our pain is indescribable. Because silence is the place for listening and speech, our world is full of noise and of empty words.

Silence is the place where speech is collected and where speech comes out. It is a path of meditation.”We’re also going to walk in silence to come together. There is too much pain, there are too many demands and right now the only thing we can do is come together to unify these demands and to look for a direction to the country where there is the same silence, its own silence. We’re going to walk like that with a lot of dignity, with a lot of grandeur.”Slowly, various groups began to walk in the following order, first the family members of the victims, then associations, and then the general public. The diversity in the attendees suggests that this march isn’t a protest over the death of only one person, or seven, or even the 40,000 deaths that were a product of a call for a war against narco-trafficking which inspired this movement for peace. In this march there is also the memory of Atenco, and the deaths at the ABC daycare center. Patricia Duarte, a mother who lost her son in the fire at the daycare center in Hermosillo due to negligence that caused the deaths of 48 children, said, “Almost two years ago they took away my only son Andrés Alonso and since that day I have vowed and promised that I am going to always fight for justice in this country until my life ends. I am accompanying Javier Sicilia because this is unforgivable…”