The search for the suspects   My sister Tesalia lives in Cambridge, Massachussetts, with her husband. They live but a few blocks away from where the shooting and killing of the MIT cop happened.  Tesalia and I have lived apart for the past eight years, but it was only last Thursday I truly felt the distance, as the biological imperative to protect her overcame me.  

This post contains a series of articles and videos that show a clear attempt at articulating a strong social movement to end the war on drugs. Global leaders, like Kofi Anan Brazil's ex-President Fernando Henrique Cardoso, former Colombian President Cesar Gaviria, and also the former US Federal Reserve chairman Paul Volcker voiced their concerns about the efficacy of the crusade on June of 2011.   We should count as antecedents of this spontaneous campaign two HBO TV series: The Corner and The Wire, which deal with the consequences of the war on drugs in already vulnerable communities in Baltimore in the United States. The first one does it from the users' and addicts’ perspective and the second one from that…

Internet and social media outlets have been crucial to informing about the drug war in Mexico, as many newspapers and TV and radio stations established -almost three years ago- a ‘censorship’ agreement due to the threats their locations and their reporters faced.   Valor por Tamaulipas (Courage for Tamaulipas) was –it will close in a week- a twitter and a facebook account, which performed such duty.  A couple of months ago it made public a threat which it allegedly faced, from members of an organized crime organization putting a price on the heads of those responsible for the news vehicle.   Such a threat elicited an avalanche of sympathy for the outlet.  Nevertheless, Daniel Hernandez’s piece in the Los Angeles…