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May 6, 2011

Mexicans Stage Marches to Protest Drug War 
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In Mexico, demonstrators have begun a number of marches to protest the
spate of nationwide drug violence and the government's response.
Organizer Julian le Baron helped kick off a march of more than 500
people that will end Sunday in Mexico City.

Julian Le Baron: "We should realize that if we don't protest and don't
participate, we are taking part in violence. If we stay quiet, we become
accomplices. There have already been 40,000 deaths. We came to give our
dead a name and dignity so that they don't become a statistic or
collateral damage."

More than 37,000 people have died since President Felipe Calderón
declared a war on drug traffickers in 2006.



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