juárez youth call for city's demilitarization

[daniel perera]

in the wake of darío álvarez's shooting by the federal police, the november 2 rally stated, among other things: "Today the people of Juárez have decided to reject the presence of the armed forces, not due to an isolated incident, not only because of our compañero Darío, but because these events are clear examples of the modus operandi of the federal police and the military. We want to work in favor of nonviolence and the demilitarization of our city because we wish to banish from it the stigma of being the most violent city in the world, seeking instead to be known as the city that works the most toward peace..."

["Hoy en Juárez la sociedad ha decidido rechazar la presencia de las fuerzas armadas no por un hecho aislado, no solo por nuestro compañero Darío, sino porque estos sucesos son claros ejemplos del modus operandi de federales y militares. Vamos a trabajar a favor de la NO VIOLENCIA y la DESMILITARIZACION de nuestra ciudad porque deseamos borrar con esto el estigma de la ciudad mas violenta del mundo, buscando que se de a conocer como la ciudad que mas trabaja por la paz..." (http://juarezenlasombra.blogspot.com/2010/11/si-nos-dan-un-nos-dan-tods-mas-de-2-mil.html)]

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this short video came out in the wake of the november 2 rally >>

http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=67Lkbc61SWY&feature=player_embedded