A protest march from Mexicans against drug abuse

Protest marches have been taken place in at least 20 cities throughout Mexico against the drug-linked hostility widening the country.

A largest numbers of people participated in the demonstration in the main square in Mexico City, chanting "no more blood". Many protestors called President Felipe Calderon to step down; blaming his plans had worsened the atrocities.

As the marches got on the move, about 59 dead bodies were found in a mass grave in Tamaulipas state. Since President Felipe Calderon started deploying forces to tackle the cartels in December 2006, more than 35,000 people have been killed in drug-related fighting. The protestors were motivated by the poet and journalist Javier Sicilia, whose son was died last week.

Mr. Sicilia has accused Mexican politicians as well as illicit gangs for the brutality, saying they have "worn out separately the fabric of the nation". Few protestors were also taken place in New York, Buenos Aires, Paris, Madrid and other cities around the world.

Javier Sicilia called for the demonstration after Juan Francisco his 24-year-old son, was found dead inside a car including six other people in the city of Cuernavaca last week. In an open letter referring to the Mexico’s politicians and criminals gangs published in Proceso, he said President Calderon's campaign against the drugs gangs has been flopped because its was "badly planned, badly carried out and badly led".

"The people have lost confidence on their higher authorities including the governor, police department and security forces. Mr. Sicilia also criticized the criminals are below to the humanity, Satan’s abilities and dull in vision. He wrote we had up to here with your brutality, your loss of respect, your unkindness and ridiculousness. Earlier Mr. Sicilia met President Calderon in Mexico City then he joined the protests. He said the president showed his sorrow with me and explained him on efforts to search his son’s killers.

The Mexican authority’s say that we have obtained numerous successes against the drug gangs most of their top leadership have been arrested or killed and the present casualties is the result of internal fighting between the opponent’s criminal gangs.

This analysis was presented by Michele Leonhart, the head of the US Drug Enforcement Administration at an international conference in the Mexican City of Cancun on Wednesday. The DEA chief said it may consider differences but the disastrous level of violence is a mark of success in the fight against drugs. Now the cartels are targeting one another similar to the caged animal. 


Primarily the crucial in the township of San Fernando was said to have about 40 bodies. The human stays were opened in the same area where the bodies of 72 migrants from Central and South America were found last August. Tamaulipas state has been the scene of bloody confrontations between enemy drugs cartels who also exploit migrants heading to the US.