• MARCH: Hundreds of protestors gathered in the central city of Cuernavaca to begin a four-day march towards Mexico in reaction to the high levels of violence throughout the country. Led by poet Javier Sicilia, the group includes members of the Mormon family killed in Northern Mexico last year.
• PEACE: Under a giant banner that read “Truth, Justice, and Peace”, demonstrators demanded an end to impunity and an effective strategy from the government, to contain record-breaking homicide numbers (34,500 only in 2019) along with more than 60,000 people who remain missing.
• IMPUNITY: “We’re here to encourage people to rise up, so that there is no impunity, and people take their part” said Jay Ray, whose daughter Dawna Langford was killed during the November 4 massacre, where nine people were killed including two of Ray’s children.
• FIRST: Back in 2011, Sicilia led the first march for victim’s rights in Mexico after his son Juan Francisco was murdered. The LeBaron family -affected by last year’s November 4th massacre in Northern Mexico- then joined to protest the killing of Eric LeBaron in 2009.
