14-LA-EN

Day 3

Los Angeles

August 14th 2012 :

This morning, a protest march is organized in front of the "City Hall". At the same time, some town councillors receive Javier Sicilia and the victims explaining their complaints.
Then "Vaquero" talk about Nepomuceno Moreno, member of the Movement for Peace, murdered last year. Mexican authorities are suspected for this.
I remember the counter-insurrection of the 70's : and if the war against narcotrafic was only an extension of the Cold War?

City Hall and "Vaquero's" Speech

Argelia, Eleazar and Mateo, his son

In the afternoon, I meet Eleazar, an old friend who emigrated 15 years ago. Known as "Trapicio", he became a very famous humorist on the hispanic TV in the U.S.

We speak about my grandmother who came to visit families here and she died a few weeks later.
her body was never repatriated to Mexico due to the lack of money,