{"id":2188,"date":"2011-04-15T08:00:00","date_gmt":"2011-04-15T12:00:00","guid":{"rendered":"http:\/\/www.l-a-k-e.org\/blog\/2011\/04\/to-the-armed-forces-of-mexico-javier-sicilia.html"},"modified":"2011-04-15T08:00:00","modified_gmt":"2011-04-15T12:00:00","slug":"to-the-armed-forces-of-mexico-javier-sicilia","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"http:\/\/www.l-a-k-e.org\/blog\/2011\/04\/to-the-armed-forces-of-mexico-javier-sicilia.html","title":{"rendered":"To the Armed Forces of Mexico &mdash;Javier Sicilia"},"content":{"rendered":"<a href=\"http:\/\/www.youtube.com\/watch?v=I-SNhyzViy4\">\n<img decoding=\"async\" style=\"float:right;border:none;\"   src=\"http:\/\/i2.ytimg.com\/vi\/I-SNhyzViy4\/default.jpg\"\n><\/a>\n50,000 people marched in Cuernavaca 6 April 2011 to the gates\nof a military base, where the usual military guards were nowhere to be seen.\n<a href=\"http:\/\/www.youtube.com\/watch?v=I-SNhyzViy4\">\nThen a poet, whose son had recently been killed by the drug war,\nclimbed up and said:<\/a>\n<blockquote>\nTo the Armed Forces of Mexico<br>\nYou have always been the custodians of peace for our nation<br>\nThat&#8217;s why we never want to see you again,<br>\noutside of your barracks,<br>\nexcept to defend us from foreign invasion,<br>\nor to help us, as you always have, during natural disasters.<br>\n<\/blockquote>\n<p align=\"center\">\n<iframe loading=\"lazy\" title=\"YouTube video player\" width=\"640\" height=\"390\" src=\"http:\/\/www.youtube.com\/embed\/I-SNhyzViy4\" frameborder=\"0\" allowfullscreen><\/iframe>\n<p>\nWhat does this have to do with us?\nWe don&#8217;t need a private prison;\n<a href=\"\/blog\/2011\/04\/no-mas-guerra-de-las-drogas.html\">\nwe need an end to the War on Drugs<\/a> that\nfills our prisons with more prisoners\ntotal and per capita than any other nation on earth.\n<p>\nTodos somos Sicilia.\n<p>\n-jsq\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"50,000 people marched in Cuernavaca 6 April 2011 to the gates of a military base, where the usual military guards were nowhere to be seen. Then a poet, whose son had recently been killed by the drug war, climbed up and said: To the Armed Forces of Mexico You have always been the custodians of [&hellip;]","protected":false},"author":1,"featured_media":0,"comment_status":"open","ping_status":"closed","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"jetpack_post_was_ever_published":false,"_jetpack_newsletter_access":"","_jetpack_dont_email_post_to_subs":false,"_jetpack_newsletter_tier_id":0,"_jetpack_memberships_contains_paywalled_content":false,"_jetpack_memberships_contains_paid_content":false,"footnotes":"","jetpack_publicize_message":"","jetpack_publicize_feature_enabled":true,"jetpack_social_post_already_shared":false,"jetpack_social_options":{"image_generator_settings":{"template":"highway","default_image_id":0,"font":"","enabled":false},"version":2},"_links_to":"","_links_to_target":""},"categories":[97,1113,40,2,1381,72,20,178],"tags":[8830,8730,4487,1296,1297,82],"class_list":["post-2188","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","hentry","category-activism","category-cca","category-community","category-government","category-immigration","category-incarceration","category-law","category-vlcia","tag-immigration","tag-incarceration","tag-javier-sicilia","tag-mexico","tag-private-prison","tag-war-on-drugs"],"jetpack_publicize_connections":[],"jetpack_featured_media_url":"","jetpack_shortlink":"https:\/\/wp.me\/p585fK-zi","jetpack_sharing_enabled":true,"jetpack-related-posts":[],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"http:\/\/www.l-a-k-e.org\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/2188","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"http:\/\/www.l-a-k-e.org\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"http:\/\/www.l-a-k-e.org\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"http:\/\/www.l-a-k-e.org\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/users\/1"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"http:\/\/www.l-a-k-e.org\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=2188"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"http:\/\/www.l-a-k-e.org\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/2188\/revisions"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"http:\/\/www.l-a-k-e.org\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=2188"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"http:\/\/www.l-a-k-e.org\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=2188"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"http:\/\/www.l-a-k-e.org\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=2188"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}