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Monday, April 01, 2013
How Mexico’s Drug Cartels Recruit Child Soldiers as Young as 11
In case you thought Mexican drug cartels had sunk as low as they
could get, a new report details how they use children as young as 11
years old to do their murderous bidding. In the last decade, the cartels “have recruited thousands of street gang members, school drop-outs and unskilled workers,”
(.pdf) the International Crisis Group recently reported. The ICG, a
non-government organization that seeks to prevent conflict, notes many
of these “recruits” — to use a clumsy term — are younger than 18,
considered expendable, and deliberately ordered to attack superior
Mexican military forces. According to military officers interviewed by the organization, the
“cartel bosses will treat the young killers as cannon fodder, throwing
them into suicidal attacks on security forces.” First, the children are enticed or manipulated
into joining the cartels, and given basic weapons instruction at
training camps, many of which have been discovered in the jungles along
the Guatemalan border. The weapons are varied,
ranging from AR-15 rifles to Uzi submachine guns, and .38 and 9-mm
caliber pistols. Next, the kids are put into cells led by experienced
cartel soldiers, who have some prior training with the military or
police...more
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