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11 June 2011<\/span> Last updated at<\/span> 20:22 ET<\/span><\/span><\/p>\n

A “peace caravan” which has spent a week travelling through Mexico to protest against drugs-related violence has crossed the border in the US.<\/p>\n

Mexican poet Javier Sicilia, who led the convoy, said the US bore a “grave responsibility” for failing to tackle the drugs crisis.<\/p>\n

He told supporters in El Paso, Texas that US citizens who used drugs were also partly to blame for the violence.<\/p>\n

Mexico’s drugs gangs are battling for control of the lucrative US market.<\/p>\n

Mr Sicilia and his convoy of about 20 coaches began their 2,500km (1,550 miles) journey in Cuernavaca, south of Mexico City, last week and have criss-crossed the country.<\/p>\n

They arrived in the Ciudad Juarez, close to the US border, on Friday before moving across the border.<\/p>\n

Ciudad Juarez has become the frontline of Mexico’s drug war, with about 3,100 violent drugs-related deaths in 2010.<\/p>\n

‘Imposing war’<\/span><\/p>\n

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Americans have to realise that behind every puff of pot, every line of coke there is death, there are shattered families\u201d<\/p>\n<\/blockquote>\n

End Quote<\/span> Javier Sicilia<\/span><\/div>\n

Mr Sicilian, whose son was killed by a suspected drug gang hit-man in March, told crowds gathered in El Paso the US “must admit their responsibility in the violence in Mexico”.<\/p>\n

He repeated his call that the US should end its Merida Initiative, which trains and supports the Mexican army in its war against drug traffickers.<\/p>\n

“The US has a grave responsibility in all this, when its citizens remain silent, they are imposing war on us,” said Mr Sicilian.<\/p>\n

He called on people in the US to put more pressure on officials to end the violence, but added that individuals also had a role to play in reducing the demand for narcotics.<\/p>\n

“Americans have to realise that behind every puff of pot, every line of coke there is death, there are shattered families.”<\/p>\n

Nearly 35,000 people have been killed in drug-related violence since President Felipe Calderon deployed the army in the fight against the cartels in 2006.<\/p>\n

Mr Sicilia wants Mexico’s army to be withdrawn from the streets and for the more to be done to prosecute drug cartel members and seize their assets.<\/p>\n

But Mr Calderon has said pulling the army out is not an option.<\/p>\n<\/div>\n

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