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<p><strong>Frontera NorteSur</strong></p>
<p>&nbsp;&nbsp;&nbsp; On Memorial Day, Albuquerque resident Michael Brown embarked on a run of more than 260-miles to the US-Mexico border.</p>

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<p>&nbsp;&nbsp;&nbsp; Completing an epic journey across Mexico, the Caravan for Peace with Justice and Dignity arrived late last week to a tumultuous welcome in Ciudad Juarez, the beleaguered border city poet and caravan organizer Javier Sicilia calls Mexico’s “epicenter of pain.”</p>

<p><strong>New America Media</strong></p>
<p>&nbsp;&nbsp;&nbsp; The “march” — as it is euphemistically called — is the talk of Mexico’s media and slowly drawing international attention.</p>

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    When young women and girls began vanishing in Ciudad Juarez about two decades ago, Esmeralda Castillo was not even born. But in 2009, the 14-year-old middle school student joined the ranks of the disappeared.

    “She was a normal girl, just like the rest,” Jose Luis Castillo, Esmeralda’s father, said in an interview.

<p><strong>New America Media</strong></p>
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    On March 8th something historic will happen in Mexico. Following a three-day trek from the south, thousands will gather in Mexico City to protest a U.S.-supported militarized drug war that has cost nearly 40,000 lives in just four years.

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<p>&nbsp;&nbsp; Thousands of Mexicans took to the streets last week to protest violence related to drug trafficking and the Mexican government’s inability or unwillingness to prevent it.&nbsp; U.S. and international activists who want to show solidarity with the people of Mexico must recognize that the most effective step we can take is to bring the war on drugs to an end.</p>