The LeBarón family and Javier Sicilia begin a walk to the National Palace in Mexico City

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(CNN Spanish) - After a message from the poet Javier Sicilia and a minute of silence for the victims of violence, the walk for “the Truth, Justice and Peace” came out this Thursday morning in Cuernavaca, Morelos, with the intention of arrive next Sunday to Mexico City.

About 500 people, including activists, groups of victims and citizens, led by members of the LeBarón family and Sicily departed from the Paloma de la Paz monument, north of Cuernavaca, to travel the Mexico-Cuernavaca highway to the town of Coajomulco, place where this first day will end.

These are the images of a part of the walk:

https://cnnespanol2.files.wordpress.com/2020/01/caminata-lebaron-javier-sicilia.mp4

The intention of this walk is to meet with President Andrés Manuel López Obrador to reconsider the security strategy that, according to the activists, is not working.

The walk is accompanied by federal and state agents, as well as the overflight of a helicopter and an ambulance to protect the safety of people.

On January 12, López Obrador met in Sonora with relatives of the victims of the massacre on November 4, in which three women and six children who were members of the LeBaron-Langford Mormon community died.

This Monday, in his morning press conference, the president said that they will facilitate the caravan's entry into the National Palace but that he will not receive them himself but the security cabinet to “not do a show, a show”, according to his words. "The security cabinet will receive them and they will be given full attention, they will be respected in everything, they will have all the support so that they are not disturbed, they are exercising their freedoms," said López Obrador.