Sicilia was attending university on a sports scholarship and working at a clinic in Morelos to help offset costs and now he’s one of the many victims from Mexico’s six-year drug war.

Exact numbers vary, but activists estimate more than 60,000 have been killed and 20,000 have disappeared as a result of the ongoing violence.

To protest the violence and the drug policies dictating the fight, a Caravan for Peace marched into Washington on Monday night and among those participating was Sicilia’s father, Mexican poet Javier Sicilia.

VOR correspondent Stephen Schaber reports.