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| Calderon to Sicilia: Not So fast, Sheehan-Breath -- Not Ready |
| 2011-06-25 |
| The one civilian out of more than 100 million in Mexico who have never even had one single audience with Mexican President Felipe Calderon Hinojosa was told Thursday that the war on drugs would be fought using the available means. Javier Sicilia, a Mexican writer and poet who lost his son in a drug murder late last March was granted a second meeting Thursday with Calderon to discuss his proposals for ending the drug war. Among those proposals were those which could impact Mexican national security overall, including returning the army to the barracks, and not using them to fight Mexican drug cartels. Other proposals include legalization of drugs, a pledge of non-violence and a means to recall corrupt politicians. To date Sicilia has enjoyed positive treatment by both the Mexican and the international press as a man of peace who was using a great tragedy to do some societal good. And it is hard to argue against a man who has suffered the loss of a child, especially one who was killed in a violent incident. But an undertow exists in the political currents which have been propelling Sicilia through Mexican which has not been widely reported seems to point to a resurgence of a leftist political movement from the 1980s. As far as this writer knows, Sicilia had toiled as a writer in relative obscurity, certainly without the international attention he has gained since last March. Among his bonifides are two stints as an editor, one at a literary magazine and one at a poltical magazine. Sicilia has long been a creature of the Mexican independant left. Starting with his involvement in the 1980s with the basic Ecclesiastical Comumnity (BEC) movement in Mexico, a close relative to the Liberation Theology movement in Latin America. He had a well known association with Sergio Méndez Arceo, known as the Red Bishop of Cuernavaca. Sergio Méndez Arceo was a socialist, who held liberation theology beliefs, and who put his beliefs into action including |
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