The Caravan for Peace with Justice and Dignity, lead by Mexican poet and writer Javier Sicilia, made a stop in El Paso Aug. 20 to bring awareness to the brutality of the ongoing drug war in Mexico and to push U.S. local, state and national authorities to include this topic in their political agendas. The caravan was welcomed by dozens of El Paso activists and supporters in search of a solution to the drug war. "We can't separate ourselves from Mexico," said Josiah Heyman, chair and professor of anthropology. "There's no question that there's a whole bunch of things that Mexico needs to do that are Mexico's responsibility in terms of their criminal justice system, their legal system, their political system, but there's a bunch of things the United States needs to do." [continues 538 words]
Prompted by the drug war that has taken the lives of an estimated 80,000 men, women and children in Mexico, a social movement has decided to take action to seek civilian diplomacy. Javier Sicilia, a Mexican poet and writer, created the Movement for Peace with Justice and Dignity after his son, Juan Francisco, was murdered in March 2011. No justice was served in the murder of Sicilia's son. His story is one of many that fall prey to the drug war and a corrupt justice system in Mexico. [continues 623 words]
Student Athletes Allegedly Involved in Recent Incident The number of drug-related incidents reported on the UTEP campus has seen a dramatic increase over the last few years. Most of the incidents have occurred at Miner Village or Miner Heights, UTEP's student residential areas and involve possession of marijuana or narcotics paraphernalia. The most recent incident, according to the UTEP Police crime log, occurred at 6:42 p.m. on Jan. 20. Officers responded to an apartment in Hueco Hall at Miner Village in reference to an odor of marijuana where narcotic paraphernalia was located. The crime log also states that the case resulted in an arrest. No other major details were released. [continues 1284 words]
