Thousands of concerned citizens will march silently in both Mexican and foreign cities on Saturday, August 30 to highlight and protest growing lawlessness in the country.

Alarmed by increasing insecurity, more Mexicans are purchasing legal firearms so they can defend themselves from well-armed criminals.

As a key security summit convened last week in an effort to bolster the government’s image while organized crime continues to leave bodies across the country, more and more businesses and families, fed up with insecurity and corruption, are taking matters into private hands.

If any of the 29 million young Mexicans returning to classes on Monday had glanced at the newspaper headlines they might have wondered what they were doing and turned back for home before they reached the school gates.

Even though international oil prices have dropped in recent weeks, the Mexican government raised pump prices Wednesday for the third time in August.