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“The numbers do not say anything,” said the Mexican poet Javier Sicilia last Thursday evening, speaking at a New York City vigil for the victims of the drug war in Mexico. “They are abstractions. No one can imagine 70,000 faces.”
Sicilia and the Caravan for Peace have traveled over...
September 11, 2012
Less than two years after President Obama set off a boom in Cuban travel by relaxing restrictions on “people-to-people” educational trips, Obama’s Treasury Department has again tightened restrictions, forcing cancellations and delays that have put dozens of educational group trips in limbo....
September 6, 2012
It has the longest Caribbean coastline of any country and the world's tallest waterfall, not to mention snow-capped Andean mountains and Amazon rainforest. Tourist paradise? Not Venezuela.
Considering the country's size and natural attractions, tourist numbers are low.
In 2009,...
September 6, 2012
Global Exchange's Kirsten Moller cheers on the Caravan in Chicago.
photo: Armando L. Sanchez, Chicago Tribune
Chicago: Sunday morning. One man dead after taking three bullets — one to the head, two to the chest. Cocaine clasped in hand, and...
September 2, 2012
LARGO — Seventy-five protesters, many dressed in pink, gathered outside the local production plant of Raytheon on Thursday, denouncing the defense contractor for its role in drone warfare.
The demonstration, organized by the groups CodePink and St. Pete for Peace, marked the unofficial...
August 24, 2012
In January 2011, The Obama administration finally rolled out long-awaiting regulations to re-open 'people to people' travel to Cuba. Such people to people engagement with the island had been pursued by the Clinton administration, only to be squeezed and finally prohibited altogether by the Bush...
August 23, 2012
Why it is happening, nobody is sure. But the Cuba "People to People" travel program touted so highly by President Obama in 2011 is coming to a screeching halt, drowning in paperwork and non-renewed licenses for travel organizations.
Almost no organizations that got licenses from the U.S....
August 22, 2012
A peace caravan led by Mexican activists has kicked off a month-long journey across the United States to call for...
August 16, 2012
Maria Herrera, left, and Araceli Magdalena Rodriguez are in Los Angeles on the Caravan of Peace. Herrera's four sons have all disappeared. Rodriguez's son, a federal police officer, was executed by organized crime figures. (Luis Sinco / Los Angeles Times / August 13, 2012)
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August 14, 2012
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August 14, 2012
With tales of grief from death and incarceration, activists aim to reform drug policy on both sides of the border. A Mexican poet who lost his son sums it up: 'We've had enough.'
SAN DIEGO — If there is a more profound and costly failure than the war on drugs, it hasn't come to...
August 12, 2012
Mexico City (CNN) -- Telephones are ringing off the hook at this office in Mexico's capital, where a group of well-known activists are planning the final details of a protest on the other side of the Mexico-U.S. border.
In a month-long Caravan of Peace across the United States,...
August 10, 2012
What would happen if Mexican survivors of the “War on Drugs” reached out to work with Americans who have weathered its violence, too? Poet Javier Sicilia and his U.S.-bound Peace Caravan are about to find out.
Few, if any, of the recent post-election protests in Mexico have...
August 10, 2012