News Updates

Caravan to Highlight Failed Drug War and Victims on Both Sides of the Border
I've been down on the bottom of a world full of lies/ I ain't looking for nothing in anyone's eyes/ Sometimes my burden seems more than I can bear/ It's not dark yet, but it's getting there. ~ Bob...
by Javier Sicilia
August 9, 2012
Can the Caravan of Peace End the War on Drugs?
Named the Caravan for Peace, the trek is intended to put human faces and names on the estimated 60,000 dead, 10,000 disappeared and 160,000 displaced people in Mexico since 2006, when the US Drug...
Tom Hayden
August 7, 2012
After Election, Mexico Poised for Return of PRI — And Continuation of Deadly U.S.-Fueled Drug War
Mexico’s old ruling party, Institutional Revolutionary Party (PRI), is set to return to power after early election results indicate the PRI candidate Enrique Peña Nieto has won the presidential...
July 12, 2012
U.S. and Mexico's "Caravan of Peace" Gearing Up to End the Drug War
Aghast and appalled at the bloody results of Mexican President Felipe Calderon's war on drugs, which has resulted in at least 50,000 deaths since he deployed the military against the so-called drug...
By Phillip Smith
June 19, 2012
Peace Caravan Will Depart from San Diego
(translated from Spanish) LOS ANGELES.- Over 60 organizations based in the United Sates will support the caravan that the Movement for Peace with Justice and Dignity plans to undertake this summer...
By E.J. Tamara / The Associated Press
June 19, 2012
U.S. and Mexico's "Caravan of Peace" Gearing Up to End the Drug War
Groups concerned with the border, immigrant rights, human rights, racial justice, and labor are all coming on board to end the war on drugs.
June 19, 2012
The Movement for Peace and Justice in Mexico
In March of last year, Javier Sicilia, one of Mexico’s leading poets, suffered a fate that is far too common in his country today: his 24-year-old son was murdered by a drug cartel. With over 40,000...
By Umar Farooq and Connor Guy
June 5, 2012
Javier Sicilia: Leading His Caravan to Washington
Last summer, the eyes of the Mexican people were fixed upon Javier Sicilia, a poet, columnist, and the spokesman of a new social movement, the Movement for Peace with Justice and Dignity. As Sicilia...
Joel Bleifuss
May 17, 2012
Mexican Poet Javier Sicilia Leads U.S. Peace Caravan to Expose Drug War’s Human Toll
One of Mexico’s best-known poets, Javier Sicilia, laid down his pen last year after his 24-year-old son was murdered by drug traffickers in Cuernavaca, Mexico.
May 10, 2012
Obama and North American Counterparts Keep it Low Profile at Today's Three Amigos Summit
CONTACT: Manuel Pérez Rocha, Institute for Policy Studies, (240) 838-6623Lacy MacAuley, Institute for Policy Studies, (202) 445-4692
April 2, 2012