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Every day more organizations join the journey for peace to be held on Sunday 8 with marches and protests in 40 Mexican cities and a dozen foreign / Foremost among these signs of discontent which will depart from and arrive Cuernavaca the Zocalo / But the organizers of the event, including Javier Sicilia, are concerned that the demonstrations of discontent by the 40 thousand dead in the war on drugs is considered a protest over / It is a national citizens' movement, stress, culminating with the signing, in Ciudad Juárez, the Pact for Peace and Reconstruction of the Country
MEXICO CITY, April 30 (PROCESS) .- Before starting the silent march for peace and justice on Sunday August, conveners make a reflection: 40,000 deaths in the last five years-one every hour on average - more than 10 000 missing, and thousands of widows and orphans are making the country a cemetery ...
Javier Sicilia warns: "Mexicans are making in people maimed soul, which is a form of death ". And claims that a month after the murder of his son Juan Francisco and six others in Cuernavaca, there is not responsible for detainees, despite intervention Army and state and federal police.
Given this state of affairs met Javier Sicilia, the capital exómbudsman Emilio Álvarez Icaza, the president of Common Cause, María Elena Morera, the president of Mexico United Against Crime Eduardo Gallo, the priest Oscar Enriquez of Juárez Human Rights Center Paso del Norte, the priest also Alejandro Solalinde, Oaxaca Hostel Brothers on the Path, and Julian LeBaron, who heads a social movement against kidnapping in Chihuahua. The purpose: to define the scope of the march. All agreed that this will be the beginning of a national movement for peace, justice and rebuilding the country.
"For me," says Solalinde, this march is the best opportunity we've had in front of the grave situation we live in, to rebuild the country that goes into a tailspin and put a stop to the violence, corruption and impunity. The departure means that Mexico will be given a chance. "
For Gallo, the event will be a catharsis for people to express their anger, their frustration and hopelessness, and also a turning point for the citizen movement that calls for solutions to insecurity, unemployment and impunity, and who wants to participate in decision-making.
"People want to say that you disagree with what's happening in the country is not what you want or what we hoped to build the political class," said the businessman whose daughter was 25 years kidnapped and murdered a decade ago.
Each of the organizers of the protest is clear that this is not a march to demand more security. Its nature is different: part of a national movement that wants to participate in rebuilding the country.
"It will be silent march because it is a way of saying that there are no words to express that we are on the edge of a glaring social problem ... The message is for politicians and for employers, unions, authorities and society: we must assume the role we play and build a new country. It's time to say enough is enough, "insists Gallo.
- What is the message for Calderon?
" That has to listen to citizens, and if it receives read the message or not this need, we is not got nothing to do. It would exclude himself from reconstruction of the life of this country. We can not keep focused on violence, destruction, death, militarization. This is not an option for anyone.
Towards a national movement
citizens' efforts are multiplied throughout the country to make progress. Until Thursday, April 28 was envisaged the participation of social groups and relatives of almost every state in 44 Mexican cities demonstrations and protests in 18 U.S. and Berlin Paris, Barcelona, \u200b\u200bSeville, Buenos Aires and Santiago.
On April 28, Subcomandante Marcos announced that the EZLN's indigenous bases on Sunday 8th march in San Cristobal de las Casas and have called on members of the Other Campaign to manifest throughout the country and abroad.
Last week the organizers met to define the key points that will present at the meeting of the Zocalo, while viewed with concern the escalating violence in the country: more killed, missing and discovery of clandestine graves in Tamaulipas, Durango and Sinaloa, where 306 bodies have been found.
"This war is against all citizens because those who are paying with the pain of our dead we are. Moreover, we are crippling the soul, because we are installing fear. We can not remain the same. The political authorities at all levels can not keep thinking about the violence, "says Javier Sicilia.
claims that it is creating a national citizen movement that wants to speak out and participate in the process of rebuilding the country.
As an example of force which can mean a citizen initiative of this kind mentioned the National March for Justice and Against Impunity in the National Defence Commission of the Chamber of Deputies to stop the approval of the National Security Act.
This legislative attempt that ended in the freezer, says: "It seems to only have the imagination to violence. The National Security Act is to that, the resources too, but nobody is worried about the victims or for citizenship that is in danger of being victimized.
"Neither (the leaders) are concerned for our young people because there is no education or jobs. Employers are tearing the social fabric to kill small businesses, small mutually supportive relationships that make the lives of communities and peoples. Everything is torn. Nobody thinks of citizens in civil life, in human life, "he says.
So says the protest is against the political class against the business and against unions," which are rotten. "
- also called for Calderon?
" We
calling all. The truth is that Calderón brings 40 thousand dead on their backs and that is criminal. If the disaster is not because of him, would be because of the rot that began with the Calles, "the 40 thousand dead they are, he declared a stupid war, poorly designed, poorly led and ill-conceived. This is serious and must be aware of who is responsible for the 40 thousand deaths. Those killed were human beings who deserve a decent life. That is a crime. And that should be told Calderon: 'You bring 40 000 deaths and serious, your responsibility'. "
clarifies that if the political class wants to sign the pact will citizen to submit to trial because the co-opting the reach of organized crime. On the subject, believes that the country must have a "reorganization" political-judicial and Colombia, where 30% of Congress went to jail because he was involved with drug trafficking.
"I insist that much of the violence is in co-opting institutions. So when President Calderón said that the bad guys are out wrong, because they are also inside. If you do not believe in remaking the fabric of the country, truly doing justice and peace in the face of citizenship, civic service, hardly going to change, "he says, and warns that in advancing this movement does not seek any political position.
Solalinde same clear Alejandro, who points out that the organizers are people who seek pain from the good of Mexico.
"moral authority are people who do not want what they have been happening to others. It called for a national pact where we all do it better ourselves. I want to be emphatic and clear about this: not from the government, not from institutions but also against them because although they are tired, if not corrupted, we must revitalize from civil society, because it is the most hurt and where the hope for change, "says the priest, who leads an organization defending the rights of Central American migrants.
As far the role assumed by the poet Javier Sicilia in the movement against violence and against the excesses of anti-narco state in the fight, the extitular of the Human Rights Commission Federal District Emilio Alvarez Icaza says: "The leadership is different because Javier Sicilia is another story, that the mass movement of Morelos, who for many years working for non-violence, peace and justice. Has the influence of Base Ecclesial Communities and from a faith perspective that incorporates the popular movements. "
So, he says, this movement has a different origin and is not only concentrated in Sicily lies behind a civil movement with a long way in the struggle for human rights and justice.
Álvarez Icaza believes that the mobilization of Sunday 8 is a step toward a national civic movement, not just a protest.
"That's what we discussed: that beyond a demonstration, must become a channel for people's participation. Hence the idea that progress in Cuernavaca begin and end with the pact in Ciudad Juarez, which is the epicenter of the pain of this country. This is to create mechanisms for participation in many different ways. We do not want to be a gear, but the expression of a channel for citizen participation "he says.
turn, Sicilia said that participants will depend on the march to avoid becoming a social protest :
"I hope that social networking can be articulated on the basis of this soil that we are building a base of uniting they are the same social networks and the public who form such committees to supervise and that the pact to be signed in Ciudad Juárez are met and given up. "
And Solalinde warns against the danger that would the fact that civil society itself miss the opportunity to change that involves peace march:
"You'll ponder. Failure to accept this opportunity, if civil society does not understand the scope or importance of this initiative, the national pact, what remains is a country that will lose. Will be more violence, more deaths ... Citizens are captives of an uncertain future in the longer any party of any color will do something to resolve the crisis. Let's be honest: no party can save Mexico. "
Juárez Pact
One of the first actions planned for this movement is the signature of a Pact for Peace and Reconstruction in the country. The aim is to subscribe in Ciudad Juarez, which, to say Oscar Enriquez, can be very significant because that location is the most aggrieved the most hurt and hurt the country in the war against drug trafficking.
Enriquez presented to the organizers a proposal for a pact signed by eight organizations demilitarize Chihuahua providing social and civil life, the army back to barracks, no more military commanders in the police, demanding justice, an end to impunity, damages to the affected families, preservation of historical memory and reestablish the country by a citizen movement.
The document stresses: "The restructuring of the country and our cities must be from a human rights perspective where every life is worthy and valuable.
We oppose the government rhetoric that sees people as disposable and named 'collateral damage'. We want to participate in the restoration of a legitimate rule of law as a guarantee of existence appropriate for the government and, therefore, kidnapping and forced disappearance boost will not name them. Insist on it: the language discrimination. "
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