By Chris Covert
Rantburg.com
After losing to violence three members of Javier Sicilia's Movement for Peace with Justice and Dignity since last October, a fourth member has voluntarily severed his relationship, according to Mexican news accounts.
Julian LeBaron who is a resident of Galeana municipality in Chihuahua state and a fundamentalist Mormon leader announced in an open letter that Javier Sicilia's peace movement had formed a relationship with governments, a nexus which he compared in the letter to repairing a car with a saw.
According to the open letter publish in whole in Proceso leftist news weekly's website Saturday, Julian LeBaron's beef with Sicilia's group has been the dialogue Sicilia has established with "highest authorities of the Mexican state", and how some members of the movement have come to embrace electoral politics as a means of bringing peace to Mexican society.
Senor LeBaron probably refers to two meetings Sicilia had with Mexican president Felipe Calderon Hinojosa as well as a meeting with top federal cabinet officials, legislators and senators from Mexico City last fall.
In a Sunday morning explication of LeBaron's decision, another Proceso report had him comparing Calderon's method of dealing with gang and drug violence with having heart surgery with chain saws. Le Baron also has a problem with what he has seen as the weak accommodations the federal government has taken with the peace movement's concerns.
Chief amongst those are legislation recently signed by President Calderon that made high school for all Mexican youth compulsory, an increase in secondary education spending and the creation of an Office for Victims of Violence.
A co-founder in Sicilia's peace movement, Universidad Nacional Autónoma de México (UNAM) professor Emilio Alvarez Icaza Longoria has taken exception to Le Baron's assessment of the strategy in Sicilia's movement. He said initiatives such as the violence against victim's office will need many "adjustments", his term. He also said the dialogue with government officials has "changed the narrative "with regard to violence.
The peace movement by Sicilia has had a number of problems since the fall of 2011.
The violent deaths of three top members of the peace group has emerged as one. Those deaths include:
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After losing to violence three members of Javier Sicilia's Movement for Peace with Justice and Dignity since last October, a fourth member has voluntarily severed his relationship, according to Mexican news accounts.
Julian LeBaron who is a resident of Galeana municipality in Chihuahua state and a fundamentalist Mormon leader announced in an open letter that Javier Sicilia's peace movement had formed a relationship with governments, a nexus which he compared in the letter to repairing a car with a saw.
According to the open letter publish in whole in Proceso leftist news weekly's website Saturday, Julian LeBaron's beef with Sicilia's group has been the dialogue Sicilia has established with "highest authorities of the Mexican state", and how some members of the movement have come to embrace electoral politics as a means of bringing peace to Mexican society.
Senor LeBaron probably refers to two meetings Sicilia had with Mexican president Felipe Calderon Hinojosa as well as a meeting with top federal cabinet officials, legislators and senators from Mexico City last fall.
In a Sunday morning explication of LeBaron's decision, another Proceso report had him comparing Calderon's method of dealing with gang and drug violence with having heart surgery with chain saws. Le Baron also has a problem with what he has seen as the weak accommodations the federal government has taken with the peace movement's concerns.
Chief amongst those are legislation recently signed by President Calderon that made high school for all Mexican youth compulsory, an increase in secondary education spending and the creation of an Office for Victims of Violence.
A co-founder in Sicilia's peace movement, Universidad Nacional Autónoma de México (UNAM) professor Emilio Alvarez Icaza Longoria has taken exception to Le Baron's assessment of the strategy in Sicilia's movement. He said initiatives such as the violence against victim's office will need many "adjustments", his term. He also said the dialogue with government officials has "changed the narrative "with regard to violence.
The peace movement by Sicilia has had a number of problems since the fall of 2011.
The violent deaths of three top members of the peace group has emerged as one. Those deaths include:
- Leiva Pedro Dominguez, who was shot to death in Aquila municipality in Michoacan state by unidentified armed suspects in August, 2011.
- Nepomuceno Moreno Nunez, who was shot to death last November by armed suspects in Hermosillo, Sonora.
- J. Trinidad de la Cruz Crisoforo, who was shot to death in Santa Maria Ostula in Aquila municipality in Michoacan state last December.
