Javier Sicilia: Mexico's Political Parties Are the "Legal Face of Organized Crime" La Jornada
go to original June 27, 2013

CUERNAVACA, Morelos - Mexican politicians, represented mainly by the PRI [Party of the Institutional Revolution], PAN [National Action Party] and PRD [Party of the Democratic Revolution], "are the legal face of crime", charged activist and writer Javier Sicilia. He claimed that President Enrique Peña and the governor of Morelos, Graco Ramírez, have done nothing to stop "the war" started by Felipe Calderón. They have only focused on changing the rhetoric and perception without changing the reality actually suffered by the majority of Mexicans.

At a press conference on Wednesday, Sicilia announced that he will be one of those leading the peace march to be held on Sunday, June 30, in the state capital. The march will depart from Calvary Church and end at the floral offering located in Cuernavaca's Zócalo [main plaza].

Sicilia demanded that politicians not use the pain of the people to "deepen the war, the violence, the crime and the absence of the State".

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