Journalist and poet Javier Sicilia—whose 24 year-old son was killed in drug violence last month—on ending the drug war by ending prohibition in the U.S.

... "narco-trafficking has existed for a long time in our country. It is part of our life. However, since the war was unleashed as a means to exterminate it, the US, which is the grand consumer of these toxic substances, has not done anything to support us.

“The weapons that are arming organized crime and are killing our kids, our soldiers, our police, come from the US and they are not doing anything to stop them. These guns are maybe worse than any kind of drug, they are powerful, terrible and widespread,” said Sicilia.

He asked that “if the US doesn’t prosecute and put a stop to its arms industry — a legalized horror — why should we prosecute the producers of the drugs?”

This was the context of the pact he proposed: “We have to subject them to the ferocious laws of the market and treat their consumption as a public health matter and come to fundamental agreements with those who are in the black market that send the drugs to the US. The problem of their consumption is theirs, not ours.

The laws of the market are much more ferocious than the laws of the state—which is why Mexican police keep finding mass graves, including two new ones this week.

Police officers and troops examined the site of the mass grave just outside Acapulco on Wednesday, after a video was posted on the internet detailing its whereabouts...

The bodies of two murdered men were found beside the mass grave dressed in the same clothes as the men in the video. A message beside the bodies read: "The people they killed are buried here."

Grim.