Mexico drug war strategy will continue despite appeals from activists, Calderon says
Mexican President Felipe Calderon on Thursday met face-to-face with activist-poet Javier Sicilia in a long and often colorful public meeting aimed at reaching a consensus on how to curb the country’s rising drug-war death toll.
Sicilia demanded Calderon apologize for carnage that has left an estimated 40,000 dead, and demanded a change in the government’s anti-crime strategy. But Calderon, flanked by Cabinet officials, repeated once more that it would be wrong to alter the basic thrust — a military-led campaign against the country’s powerful cartels.