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Trailer | El Poeta
After his son’s murder in 2011, and with no end to the bloodshed in sight, Mexican poet Javier Sicilia called on the Mexican people to protest the government’s policies, bringing more than 100,000 people to the capital to demand that the government address the devastating impact of the militarized drug war.
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