Should Presidents Obama and Pena Nieto Discuss Ways to Legalize Drugs? Manuel Rueda - ABC/Univision
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Mexican writer and activist and leader of the Movement for Peace with Justice and Dignity, Javier Sicilia, speaks during a press conference at Mexico City's Tolerance Museum, on August 10, 2011. (Alfredo Estrella/AFP/Getty Images)

Javier Sicilia, the main spokesman for Mexico's Movement for Justice with Peace and Dignity, does not shy away from putting thorny issues on the table.

On Thursday, he demanded that Mexican President Enrique Peña Nieto discuss drug legalization, and the arms trade, in his upcoming meeting with President Obama.

"There will be no peace [in Mexico] while drug consumption is not regulated on the other side of the border, and while there is not a serious policy to control deadly weapons," Sicilia said on Thursday in Mexico City.

"Obama is coming here, and we have not said anything about how his [country's] weapons are destroying us," Sicilia added during a ceremony that marked the second anniversary of his peace movement, which has been touted by some analysts as the world's largest movement against the war on drugs.

President Obama is slated to visit Mexico City on May 2nd for a series of meetings with Mexican officials.

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