ON MAY 26, 12 people aged 16 to 33 disappeared without trace after leaving Heaven, an after-hours club in the heart of Mexico City.

Mexican poet-turned-activist Javier Sicilia set off on a cross-country caravan with hundreds of fellow demonstrators to demand an end to drug-related bloodshed.

An anti-violence march that began in a central Mexico state with a few hundred people and gathered thousands over a four-day trek has reached Mexico’s capital.

AT least 59 bodies have been found on a ranch in Mexico’s northern state of Tamaulipas on the US border, coinciding with massive protests against drug violence the government has failed to stem.