MEXICO CITY – Mexican poet-turned-activist Javier Sicilia has set off on a cross-country caravan with hundreds of fellow demonstrators to demand an end to drug-related bloodshed.
The caravan of about a dozen buses has set out from Cuernavaca, a resort and industrial city south of Mexico City where Siclia's son and six others were killed on March 28. The group is scheduled to arrive June 10 in violence-plagued Ciudad Juarez, across the border from El Paso.
Organizers say they plan protest events in at least eight Mexican states along the way.
More than 35,000 people have died in drug-related violence since December 2006.
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