Despite all the warnings, some of you will be unable to resist. Drink may have been taken, endorphins coursing in your veins, inhibitions lost. Before you know it, as your colleagues at the Christmas party stand nearby, aghast, you are dancing.

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.

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.