Poet and activist Javier Sicilia met with illegitimate president Felipe Calderón yesterday. The killing of Sicilia’s son gave a face and voice to 40,000 people that have been killed due to Calderón’s war against drugs. Willivaldo Delgadillo thinks that, after the Zapatista insurrection in 1994, this is the next big social movement against violence in Mexico. Here is the last poem Sicilia wrote after his son’s death:
The world is not worthy of words
They have been suffocated from the inside
As they suffocated you, as they tore apart your lungs
The pain does not leave me, all that remains is the world
Through the silence of the righteous,
Only through your silence and my silence, Juanelo
El mundo ya no es mundo de la palabra
Nos la ahogaron adentro
Como te asfixiaron, como te desgarraron a ti los pulmones
Y el dolor no se me aparta, sólo tengo el mundo
Por el silencio de los justos
Sólo por tu silencio y por mi silencio, Juanelo
The reversal of the presumption of innocence in drug-possession cases is incompatible with the rule of law and is therefore unconstitutional in ALL jurisdictions. Furthermore, the ECONOMICS of the drug trade dictate that criminal sanctions are self-defeating unless concentrated on RETAIL SALES.
See “The universally unconstitutional war on drugs”: http://is.gd/ccxry6 .