Los Angeles Times, 05 Sep 2012 – A Former Addict Makes Reparations to Grieving Mexican Mothers. The redhaired man who stepped onto the Olvera Street bandstand looked vaguely familiar, but it was his words that got my attention. John Whitaker, a 52year-old Santa Clarita resident, was addressing a rally to raise awareness of cartel violence in Mexico, and he started off by apologizing to the Mexican mothers he’d just heard speak about losing children in the drug wars.
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