[ Diary #1: A Poet Now Leads the Movement in Mexico ]:

Their hope, as usual, is that the ebb and flow of news cycles will wash all of this away. Now, please move along.....nothing to see here.

On so many levels, modern society has become a violent orgy of Predation, Control, and Hatred. Who but a Poet could respond to those things, both abstract and very real with the death of his son..

In the time since, he has become a leader in the anti-drug war movement. Today, an estimated 10,000 took to the streets of Mexico at Javier's urging. While so many of us are mired in apathy and political hopelessness, Javier Sicilia has in one month helped galvanize a movement, and TODAY the cowardly president of Mexico, Calderon himself, granted an audience to this Poet and Revolutionary, Javier Sicilia.

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L.A. Times has picked up the story as part of its article on upcoming drug war marches in Mexico City on Sunday.

Conservative President Calderon hopes during this election cycle that criticism of his failed escalation of the military's war against cartels will move along and be quiet.

"The actions of criminals … must not divide us," Calderon said Thursday during a Cinco de Mayo ceremony in the city of Puebla. "Mexicans should put country before party.

What does it take to end a military occupation?

A poet sets the record straight on what it actually means to "put country" above politics...