Around the World: Mexico
China Daily | Updated: 2008-09-01 07:45
Big rally against crime
More than 150,000 Mexicans dressed in white marched on Saturday to protest a wave of kidnappings and gruesome murders, putting pressure on President Felipe Calderon to meet his promises to crack down on crime.
Demonstrators filled the capital's Zocalo Square, holding candles and pictures of kidnap victims and bearing signs that read, "Enough is enough".
People marched in cities throughout the country, including along the US-Mexico border where increasingly brazen drug gangs are battling each other for control of smuggling routes.
(China Daily 09/01/2008 page7)
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